Math 30440 --- Introduction to probability and statistics
University of Notre Dame, Spring 2009
Weekly assignments and midterm exams
Instructions: Please present your answers neatly and legibly.
Include a cover page with your name, the course number, the
assignment number and the due date. The course grader reserves the
right to leave ungraded any assignment that is disorganized, untidy
or incoherent. You may turn this assignment in before class, or
leave it in my mailbox (outside 255 Hurley Hall). It can also be
emailed; if you plan to email, please check with me to see if the
format you plan to use is one that I can read. No late assignments
will be accepted. It is permissible (and encouraged) to discuss the
assignments with your colleagues; but the writing of each assignment
must be done on your own.
- Assignment 10 (will not be collected; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 8, problems 14, 17, 21, 25, 28, 35, 37, 41, 47, 57.
- Assignment 9 (due *Monday* Apr 20; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 7, problems 34, 37, 39, 41, 44, 49, 55.
Chapter 8 problems 3, 4, 7, 11, 12.
- Assignment 8 (due Thursday Apr 2; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 7, problems 1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 13, 17, 23, 24, 28.
- Assignment 7 (due Thursday Mar 26; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 6, problems 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 15, 22, 30.
- Assignment 6 (due Thursday Mar 5; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 5, problems 23(b, c, e), 24, 27, 31, 34, 37, 39
- Assignment 5 (due *Thursday* Feb 26; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 5, problems 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22.
- Assignment 4.5 (due Monday Feb 23): Carefully redo the six questions from the first midterm. The questions are posted below (in the
Examinations secion), together with partial solutions, so that you can check your work. Complete solutions will be posted on Monday.
This assignment won't be graded, I will just record that you did the work.
- Assignment 4 (due *Monday* Feb 16; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 4, problems 24, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 39, 40, 43, 44, 54, 56.
- Assignment 3 (due *Thursday* Feb 5; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 4, problems 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16 and 17.
- Assignment 2 (due Wed Jan 28; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 3, problems 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37
(the figure refered to in the question is on page 86) and 38.
- Assignment 1 (due Wed Jan 21; solutions here): Ross, Chapter 3, problems 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17 (for the last two problems,
you might find it helpful to read this note explaining what is meant by a ``combinatorial argument'').
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