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Arithmetic sum

Show that

\[\sum_{j=1}^n j =\frac{1}{2}n(n+1)\]

 

Hint: notice that \(1+n=n+1\), \(2+(n-1)=n+1\), \(3+(n-2)=n+1\) and so on. How many such pairings exist ?

Coin Flips: describe events

Consider the probability space

\[ \Omega = \{ HHH,HHT,HTH,HTT,THH,THT,TTH,TTT\}\]

as the outcome of three consecutive tosses of a coin. (We make the reasonable assumption that all outcomes are are equally likely.) The event

\[ \{ HHH,TTT\}\]

is the event that all three tosses have the same outcome. Give a similar verbal description to each of the events bellow:

  1. \(\{HHH,HHT,HTH,HTT\}\)
  2. \(\{HTH,HTT,TTT,TTH\}\)
  3. \(\{HTT,HTH,HHT,HHH\}\)
  4. \(\{HTH,THH,TTH\}\)
  5. \(\{THT,HTT,TTH\}\)
  6. \(\{TTT,TTH,THT,HTT\}\)
  7. \(\{HHT,HHH,TTH,TTT\}\)

[Pitman, p31, #5] (Assign 1 and 5 first).

Calculus: Differentiation

Perform the following differentiation:

  1. \[\frac{d\ }{dx} \Big(x^4\Big) \]
  2. \[\frac{d\ }{dx} \Big(x^2 \exp(-x)\Big) \]
  3. \[\frac{d\ }{dx} \Big(\ln(x^2) \Big) \]

Calculus: Areas

Draw a picture of the region of the \(xy\)-plane were both x and y are between 0 and 1 and \(y \geq x^2\). Find the area of this region

Calculus : Exponentials integrals

Do the following integrals:

  1. \[ \int_0^1 x^3 dx\]
  2. (*) Hint: integrate by parts. \[\int_0^\infty x \exp(-x) dx\]
  3. (**) \[\int_0^\infty  \exp(-\frac12 x^2) dx\] Try looking at  \[\Big(\int_0^\infty  \exp(-\frac12 x^2) dx\Big)\Big(\int_0^\infty  \exp(-\frac12 y^2) dy\Big)=\int_0^\infty \int_0^\infty  \exp(-\frac12 x^2) \exp(-\frac12 y^2)dx dy\] and then changing to polar coordinates. How des this help you figure out the original question ?

Practice with inclusion, exclusion.

Events \(A\), \(B\), and \(C\) are defined on a probability space. Find expressions for the
following probabilities in terms of \(\mathbf{P}(A)\), \(\mathbf{P}(B)\), \(\mathbf{P}(C)\), \(\mathbf{P}(AB)\), \(\mathbf{P}(AC)\), \(\mathbf{P}(BC)\), and \(\mathbf{P}(ABC)\).

  1. The probability that exactly two of the \(A\), \(B\), \(C\) occur.
  2. The probability that exactly one of these events occurs.
  3. The probability that none of these events occur.

Here the notation \(AB\) is short for \(A \cap B\) which is the event “both \(A\) and \(B\)”

( [Pitman, p. 31, # 10])

Random Letters

Suppose a word is picked at random from this sentence. Find:

  1. the outcome space for this random experiment
  2. the chance the word has at least 4 letters;
  3. the chance that the word contains at least 2 vowels (a,e,i,o,u)
  4. the chance that the word contains at least 4 letters and at least 2 vowels.
  5. What is the distribution of the length of the word picked ?
  6. What is the distribution of the number of vowels in the word ?

(Based on [Pitman p.9 #2 and p. 31 #6)

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