Math 448, Spring 2024

Math 448 - Probability and Statistics
Spring 2024

Syllabus

Announcements:
- The Final Exam will be given on Wednesday, May 1 from 8:00 am to 9:50 am in the usual lecture room. It will cover material from the entire course. You may prepare and bring one 8.5" by 11" sheet of paper with any formulas, problems, or any other information you would like to use on the exam. You can use both front and back of this sheet. Additionally, you may use a scientific calculator. To help you study for the exam, you may wish to review this list of exam material. Also, here's a collection of a bunch of probability problems that I put together a few years ago, which might help refresh your memory on that part of the course.
- In the process of making your formula sheet, you may or may not find it useful to consider this packet of information assembled for FE Review, which contains both topics covered in the course and lots of topics that weren't covered in the course.

Homework Assignments
- Homework 1, due Friday, January 19

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

- Homework 2, due Friday, January 26

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

- Homework 3, due Friday, February 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

- Homework 4, due Friday, February 9

Section 2.3, pages 101-102: #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
Section 2.4, page 113: #1, 3, 4

- Homework 5, due Friday, February 16

Section 2.5, pages 127-128: #4, 6, 7
Section 2.6, pages 140-141: #1, 3, 5, 6, 17
Section 3.1, pages 159-160: #1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12

- Homework 6, due Friday, February 23

Section 3.2, pages 167-168: #1, 2, 5, 6, 10
Section 3.3, pages 172-173: #3, 8, 10
Section 3.4, page 178: #1, 4, 6, 8
Section 3.5, pages 182-183: #2, 3, 6

- Homework 7, due Friday, March 1

Section 2.2, pages 91-92: #2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11

- Homework 8, due Friday, March 8

Section 2.3, page 102: #10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17
Section 2.4, pages 113-114: #5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13
Section 4.1, pages 189-190: #2, 3, 6

- Homework 9, due Friday, March 22

Section 4.2, pages 198-199: #3, 8, 9, 11
Section 5.1, pages 228-229: #1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15
Section 5.2, pages 238-239: #4, 8, 9, 10
Section 5.3, pages 250-251: #4, 5, 8, 10, 13

- Homework 10, due Friday, April 5 (data sets can be found at
https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111827045&token=)

Section 6.1, page 271: #1, 4, 5
Section 6.2, page 280: #3
Section 6.3, pages 287-288: #1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Section 7.2, page 310: #1, 2, 5

OPTIONAL: Many problems in this chapter require the use of Excel or statistics software. While this is important in doing statistics in the real world, our exams will not use software, so I am not asking you to turn in any of these problems. However, if you do have the desire and means to do them, you may wish to gain experience with such software by attempting any of the following problems:
Section 6.2, page 280: #5, 8, 9
Section 6.3, page 288: #4, 5, 6

- Homework 11, due Friday, April 12

Section 7.3, pages 318-319: #2, 3, 7, 9, 13, 20, 21
Section 8.1, page 347: #2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14

- Homework 12, due Friday, April 19

Section 8.2, pages 378-380: #3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 23, 24

- Bonus Homework, due Wednesday, May 1

Old Announcements:
- Exam 1 will be given on Friday, February 2 and will cover the material in Chapter 1 and in Section 2.1. No notes, books, or graphing calculators will be permitted during the exam, but you may bring and use a scientific calculator.
- As announced in class today after consultation with the students in attendance, the date of Exam 2 has been tentatively moved to Wednesday, February 28. If anyone has any major concerns or complaints about this change, please let me know by this Friday, February 16. Based on any feedback I get by then, I'll make the final decision about the Exam 2 date at that time.
- After hearing no objections during the feedback period, the date of Exam 2 has now been officially moved to Wednesday, February 28.
- Exam 2 will be given on Wednesday, February 28, and will cover the material in Chapter 3, as well as the material about discrete random variables from Sections 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6. No notes, books, or graphing calculators will be permitted during the exam, but you may bring and use a scientific calculator.
- Exam 3 will be given on Friday, March 22, and will cover the material about continuous random variables from Sections 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4, as well as the material in Sections 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. You will be provided a copy of the tables of probabilities for the standard normal random variable that was given in class. No additional notes, books, or graphing calculators will be permitted during the exam, but you are encouraged to bring and use a scientific calculator.
- Exam 4 will be given on Friday, April 19 and will cover the material in Chapters 6, 7, and 8. No notes, books, or graphing calculators will be permitted during the exam, but you may bring and use a scientific calculator.
- The statistics portion of the course has many problems that rely on data sets, which can be downloaded at https://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9781111827045&token=. You will be able to download a .zip file containing the data sets in a variety of file types.