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Transcribed Image Text:5. Let's estimate using simulation. To do that, simulate the event of tossing a dart into a unit square in Excel
and count how many darts fall into an inscribed circle of the unit square. (Hint: Use =Rand() to generate a number
from Uniform(0,1) in Excel.) Then compute an estimate of 7 using the ratio of the darts that had fallen into the
circle based on 50, 100, 500, 1000, 3000, 5000 tosses, respectively. Also answer the following questions.
(a) Does the estimate seem to converge to the true value of 7 as the number of tosses increase? Why?
(b) Compute the 95% confidence intervals of these estimates. Explain in words the meaning of the confidence
interval.
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