Irina’s basketball team has a 1 in 6 chance of winning the first-place trophy. She rolled a six-sided number cube repeatedly, assigning her team a number from 1 to 6 to demonstrate the probability that her team would win. Which method did she use to collect her data?

Irina used a number cube to imitate the chance of her team winning, with one of the six outcomes representing a win. Using a random process to model a real-world event is a simulation, so the correct choice is simulation.

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