Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Due Friday, April 3
section 10.6 This is an ever harder section than 10.5. Read and understand the introduction!

  • Read intro, understand expected value. This is also sometimes called the long run value. 
  • Skip Investigation for similar reasons to 10.4, there are too few students to generate enough data to see the trend.
  • Read Example A. MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS! Study the table given in the solution, this is the type of table we will use in every problem, understand it! I will break the data apart to show why this works but try to understand it as it is written. 
  • Read and understand Example B. In the case of Example A, there was end to the series because no litters had more than 6 puppies. In Example B the series goes on into infinity. Though it is not discussed, the expected value in this case is the asymptote for the situation. This is a strange concept. With each iteration you are adding another value to the previous cumulative sum.  Since you are adding a value one would think the cumulative sum would increase forever. However, as you will see it does approach and expected value, which we see as an asymptote on a graph.
  • Problems:
    • 1 - Again, understand the table!
    • 2
    • 3 - make the table
    • 4 - reading and using histograms
    • 5 - the table
Chapter 10 test Thursday, April 9

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