Announcement

• Assignments can be handed in through the assignment box outside of the general office, during the tutorials and through emails.
• Midterm Exam: June 7th 2016, 14:30--16:30, LSB LT1.
• Final Exam: June 30th 2016, 14:30--16:30, LSB LT1.
• For those who did not generalize 1(a) as in the midterm solution but generalized to comparing all possible numbers rolled, please let us know as we now also accept that answer.
• Midterm: Mean = 75; SD = 17.3 (3 s.f.); Max = 100; Min = 20
• For the course of Tuesday, June 28th 2016, we will be using the classroom LSB LT3.

General Information

Lecturer

• Dr. Shuang SHEN
  • Office: LSB233
  • Tel: (852) 3943-7956
  • Email:

Textbooks

• Sheldon Ross, A first course in probability. 8th edition. Pearson Education International.

Tutorial Notes

• On 19/ 5, we discussed examples 5b, 5f, 5g, 5h and 5l from Chapter 2.
• On 24/ 5, we discussed examples 5m, 5n from Chapter 2 and examples 2g, 3h, 3l, 4f from Chapter 3.
• On 26/ 5, we discussed example 5d and Self-test problems and exercises 3.25, 3.26, 3.27, 3.29 from Chapter 3.
• On 31/ 5, we discussed example 1d, 3d, 4b, 9c and Self-test problems and exercises 4 from Chapter 4.
• On 2/ 6, we discussed example 6c, 8a, Theoretical exercises 18 and Self-test problems and exercises 22, 25 from Chapter 4.
• On 14/ 6, we discussed examples 2d, 3c, 4d from Chapter 5.
• On 21/ 6, we discussed examples 2b, 2h and Problem 6.12, 6.13 from Chapter 6 and examples 2h, 2j from Chapter 7.
• On 23/ 6, we discussed examples 4d, 4e, 7b, 7c, 7g, and Theoretical Exercises 7.19, 7.23, 7.46 from Chapter 7.
• On 28/ 6, we discussed some problems from HW5 and Theoretical Exercises 9.4 and 9.6 from Chpater 9.

Assignments

• Homework 1: Chapter 2, Problems 10, 28; Theoretical exercises 5; Self-test problems and exercises 14, 15. (Deadline: 24/ 5 (Tue), 18: 30)
• Homework 2: Chapter 3, Problems 13, 51, 78; Theoretical exercises 6, 31; Self-test problems and exercises 30. (Deadline: 31/ 5 (Tue), 18: 30)
• Homework 3: Chapter 4, Problems 28, 35, 38; Theoretical exercises 4, 7, 27. (Deadline: 7/ 6 (Tue), 18: 30)
• Homework 4: Chapter 5, Problems 4, 6; Theoretical exercises 6, 9, 15. (Deadline: 21/ 6 (Tue), 18: 30)
• Homework 5: Chapter 6, Problems 9, 23. Chapter 7, Problems 12, 40; Theoretical exercises 49; Self-test problems and exercises 13. (Deadline: 28/ 6 (Tue), 18: 30)

Quizzes and Exams

• Midterm
• Final

Solutions

• Solution to Assignment 1
• Solution to Assignment 2
• Solution to Assignment 3
• Solution to Midterm (Updated 5(b) and 5(c))
• Solution to Assignment 4
• Solution to Assignment 5
• Solution to Final

Assessment Scheme

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and thereby help avoid any practice that would not be acceptable.