Well it is March and I know you ballers are looking forward to March Madness. In the library I have run March Reading Madness to coincide with they 64 team tourney. I have selected the top 16 books that have gone out in our library based on the books circulation. To decide which book moves on we use a bit of probability.
Let us assume book A has been taken out 30 times and book B has been taken out 20 times then book A should get through to the next round 30/(30+20) or 3/5ths of the time compared to book B's 2/5ths of the time. We then have a student use their calculator and the random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 50. If it is 1-30 then book A advances and if it is 31-50 then book B advances. Just working a bit of math in here for you.
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