- Last time: the beauty of fractals
- shoeboxes of universes
- acres of dominoes.
- Today: Risky business!
- Reminder: your papers are due the 22nd (first round, of two)
- Text: 5-10 pages, double spaced
- At least three sources in your bibliography (preferably at
least one paper source)
- May include the rest in appendices (graphs, charts,
images, additional material).
- Hand back problems for assignment #4. Some comments:
- Nice drawings, especially of underwear!
- Generally a very good job.
- Mensa quiz: a coin is flipped 17 times, and each time it
comes up heads: what's the chance that it will be heads on the next flip?
- Experiments from 7.1. How do the following work? How can we model
these to test them?
- "Let's make a deal" problem
- coin problems
- two sons problem
- matching birthday problem
- Definition of probability as limit of frequency
- Problems from 7.2:
- Next time: more "risky business"
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