Math 3118, section 1

Fall 2002

Chapter 2 review questions

   Purpose:These problems aren't assigned, and there won't be any test questions exclusively focused on this material.
         Nonetheless, working these problems (or reviewing them if they're in your notebook from Math 3113 ... )
         could provide helpful background for dealing with some of the chapter 7 problems. Indeed, in the equiprobable model,
         we often end up with a formula that says something like this:
            p([given event]) = (# of outcomes in which this event happens) / (total # of outcomes)

• Sec. 2.2: # 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 11
   
• Sec. 2.3: # 4, 5, 9, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34
   
• Sec. 2.5: # 5, 6, (and subsequent exercises corresponding to the parts of exercise 7.1.10 that you're planning to work)
  Click here to see some of the solutions.
   
• A miscellaneous exercise
  Two cards are drawn at random from a standard deck of 52 cards.
1. How many possible outcomes are there?
2. In how many of those outcomes are both cards aces?
3. In how many outcomes is there at least one space?
4. In how many outcomes are both cards aces and one of the two is the ace of spades.
    

    

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