Suppose there was one of six toy animals inside your favorite box of cereal and you would like to collect them all.
You could be lucky and only buy six boxes, but how many boxes of cereal would you expect to have to buy on average?
With thanks to this website we carried out an experiment with dice to simulate this problem:
Click here for a pdf with several blank tables to cut out and use.
We then used python to generate 1000 trials and compared our average to the theoretical average we calculated.