Math 20: Discrete Probability

Summer 2000


Instructor: Jim Baumgartner
Lecture times: MWF 10:00-11:05
X-hour: Th 12:00-12:50
Classroom: 102 Bradley
ext: Introduction to Probability, by C. Grinstead and J. L. Snell


CHANCE Project


Homework: Our homework grader is Amanda Roberts. She has been asked to grade each set on a basis of two points each. Essentially correct work rates 2, incorrect work rates 0, and something in between rates 1. Homework does not count for the final grade unless you end between two grades. Then homework will move you to one or the other. Do the homework even though it may not count for the final grade! There is ample evidence to show that those who do badly on the homework also do badly on the final grade.


Homework Assignments


Assignment due Friday, June 30

   pages 35-38:  2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 31


Assignment due Friday, July 7

   pages 88-91:  1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 17
   pages 113-115:  2, 3, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17


Here is the Monty Hall problem

Assignment due Friday, July 14

   pages 115-116:  19, 20, 21, 22, 24
   pages 150-156:  2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, 24, 39


Assignment due Monday, July 24

   pages 197-202;  1, 4, 6, 7, 9ab,13, 16, 21, 24, 27, 28, 29, 32
   pages 247-254:  1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 22, 30acd


Assignment due Friday, July 28

   pages 263-264;  1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 12, 15   


 The second take-home exam will be given Monday, August 7 and will be due August 9.

Assignment due Friday, August 4
   pages 289-290;  1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8
   pages 312-314;  1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10
   pages 71-73;  1, 2, 5, 8a


Note that homework is due Monday because of the exam

Assignment due Monday, August 14
   pages 338-340;  1, 2b, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14


Assignment due Monday , August 21
   pages 413-415;  1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 19
   pages 422-425;  1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 19
   pages 442-445;   1, 2, 3, 5ab, 7, 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 24
This is the last homework assignment

 


 

Office: 102 Choate House
E-mail: jim.baumgartner@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3559


Office hours:
4:00-5:00 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
or by appointment.


The honor code: You may discuss the homework with one another. However, in each assignment turned in you must have done the majority of the actual mathematical work, and all of the write-up, independently. Obviously no collaboration is allowed on the exams.



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