M 362K A first course in Probability, 7^th edition

Unique# 59110 - Fall 2008

Homework assignments

Homework 1- Due date: Thursday September 11

Chapter 1:

Page 16: 2, 3, 5, 17, 24, 26, Page 19: 7, 8, 9, 13

Chapter 2:

Page 55: 3, 8, 9, 12, 22, 23, 36, 41 Page 61: 1, 2, 3, 6 a-b-d-c-e

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Homework 2- Due date: Tuesday September 23

Chapter 2:

Page 62: 11, 12, 13

Chapter 3:

Page 111: 2, 8, 17, 19, 26, 39, 46, page 124: 1, 2, page 129: 2, 4, 8.

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Homework 3- Due date: Tuesday October 7^th

Chapter 3:

Page 117 : 50, 51, 60, 79 ; Page 124 : 5, 6, 13, 15, 16, 29, 30 ; page 129 : 8, 15, 17.

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Homework 4 - Due date: Thursday October 23^rd

Chapter 4:

Page 187 : 2, 5, 6 (compute E[X] for these three first problems);

17, 19, 38

Page 197: 4, 5, 9, 10, 13,

Page 201 : 1, 9,

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Homework 5 - Due date: Thursday October 30^rd

…more on Chapter 4:

Page 194: 57, 58.

Page 198: 15, 17, 19, 27, 28, 29.

Page 202 : 8, 21.

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Homework 6 - Due date: November 13th

Chapter 5:

Page 247: 1, 3, 6, 7, 14, 15 a)-b)-e), 23, 27, 29.

Page 251: 1, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20.

Page 255 : 1, 4.

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Homework 7 – New Due date: November 25th

Still from Chapter 5:

Page 250: 32, 36, 39

Page 253: 28, 30

Chapter 6:

page 313: 8, 10, 20, 21, 23, 54, 55.

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Homework 8 – Suggested problems -- Not due

Chapter 7 :

Page 408: 3, 16, 26, 30, 33, 38, 40, 48, 50, 51

(Use the definition of covariance in page 355-6: Cov(X, Y) = E[XY] – E[X]E[Y]

And properties on page 356

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