4.05 Coin Flip Simulations

Answer the following questions.

1. Write an if/else statement to express the following real life situation. Mary likes ice cream and always chooses chocolate unless there is no chocolate in which case she chooses strawberry. But if there’s no strawberry either then she settles for vanilla, which, for some reason, is always available. (HINT: You may need to put together more than 1 if/else statement to do this.)
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1. Give another example from real life where you use if/else logic to make a decision.
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1. What enables us to simulate coin flipping in this app is App Inventor’s random-integer block. This blocks constitute a model of randomness -- an abstraction of real randomness such as really flipping a coin. How might we use the CoinFlip app test whether this is a good model of randomness?
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