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What would be considered the control group in the dice probabilities project?
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Hello. Not every experiment will have a control group, and your experiment is one of them. Experiments will have a control group if you want to compare changing something about a subject to its natural state. The subject in its natural state would be the control group. For example, if you wanted to study how fertilizer affects plant growth, your control group would be the plant without fertilizer.

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In your experiment, there really is no "natural state" for rolling dice. Instead, you are comparing the results of different levels of the independent variable...10-sided dice v. 6-sided dice. Even though you won't have a control group, you will have control variables. These are variables you don't want to change during your experiment.

For your project, you will need to define control, independent, and dependent variables. If you still have questions, certainly write back with what you think these are, and we can go from there.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

Thank you! Your reply was very helpful.

You're most welcome. Good luck!