Math 448 - Probability and Statistics
Fall 2020
Syllabus
Announcements:
-
The cumulative exam will be given in class on Monday, November 23
and will cover all the material in the class. You may prepare
a formula sheet to use on the exam. The formula sheet can be
one sheet of paper no bigger than 8.5" by 11", and you can put any
formulas, example problems, or any other material on this sheet that
you would like to use on the exam. You will also be given the
tables for the Z-distribution and the t-distribution, and you can
use a scientific calculator. You may find it useful to review
this list of material
that may be on the exam.
- The textbook problems for Chapter 6 (and a few problems
beyond that) use data sets that can be downloaded from: https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111827045&token=
Homework
Assignments
As a reminder, you do NOT need to turn in any homework.
However, these are problems that you should review to solidify
your understanding of the material that we covered each week.
- Week 0:
- Section
1.1, page 8: #1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
- Section
1.2, pages 14-15: #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
- Section
1.3, pages 31-32: #4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14
- Week 1:
- Section
1.4, pages 38-40: #2, 3, 5, 15, 16
- Section
1.5, pages 48-50: #3, 8, 9, 10, 15, 19
- Section
1.6, pages 55-56: #1, 4, 5, 9
- Week 2:
- Section
1.7, pages 63-64: #5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20,
21, 22
- Section
2.1, pages 80-81: #3, 5, 6, 8, 9
- Week 3:
- Section
2.3, pages 101-102: #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
- Section
2.4, page 113: #3, 4
- Section
2.5, pages 127-128: #4, 6, 7
- Section
2.6, pages 140-141: #1, 3, 5, 6, 17
- Week 5:
- Section
3.1, pages 159-160: #1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12
- Section
3.3, pages 172-173: #3, 7, 8, 11
- Section
3.5, pages 182-183: #1, 2, 3, 5
- Week 6 and 7:
- Section
3.2, pages 167-168: #1, 2, 5, 6, 9
- Section
3.4, page 178: #1, 4, 5, 6, 8
- Section
2.2, pages 91-92: #2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11
- Section
2.3, page 102: #10, 11, 12, 14, 17
- Section
2.4, pages 113-114: #5, 6, 7, 9, 13
- Section
2.5, pages 127-128: #3, 5
- Section
2.6, pages 140-141: #9, 10, 12
- Week 8:
- Section
4.1, pages 189-190: #2, 3, 5
- Section
4.2, pages 198-199: #2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 11
- Week 9:
- Section
5.1, pages 228-229: #1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15
- Section
5.2, pages 238-239: #1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10
- Section
5.3, pages 250-251: #4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13
- Week 10:
- Section
6.1, page 271: #1, 4, 5
- Section
6.2, page 280: #5, 8, 9
- Section
6.3, pages 287-288: #1, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
- Section
7.2, page 310: #1, 2, 5
- Week 11:
- Section
7.3, pages 318-319: #2, 3, 7, 9, 13, 14, 20, 21
- Week 12 and 13:
- Section
8.1, page 347: #1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14
- Section
8.2, pages 378-379: #3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14
Old Announcements:
- Exam 1 will be given on Friday, September 18 in class and
will cover the material in Chapter 1 and the material in Chapter 2
about discrete random variables. You may use a scientific
calculator. No graphing/programmable calculators will be
permitted, and you may not use any notes or books during the exam.
- Exam 2 will be given on Friday, October 9 in class and
will cover the material in Chapter 3 and the material in Chapter 2
about continuous random variables. You may use a scientific
calculator. No graphing/programmable calculators will be
permitted, and you may not use any notes or books during the exam.
- Exam 3 will be given on Friday, November 6 in class and
will cover the material in Sections 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1,
6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3. You may use a scientific
calculator. No graphing/programmable calculators will be
permitted, and you may not use any notes or books during the exam.