Textbook Errata

Neuhauser, 2e

Page 296, Problem 7. Change "smallest" to "largest."

Page 352, the "Properties" box: It should be said somewhere that a < b.

Page 509, Problem 19, line 5. For "mg^{-1}" read "mg liter^{-1}."

Page 793, Problem 22. For "How may" read "How many."

Page 809, 2/3 down the page. For "We can illustrated" read "We can illustrate."

Page 830, lines 8-9. Here A and B are not events (i.e., are not subsets of the sample space), but are intervals in R.

Page 885, Problem 24, part (d). Here |X - 2| should be |X + 2|.

Page 885, Problem 31. For "var(X) = 1" read "var(Z) = 1."

Page 885, Problem 32. For "var(X) = 1" read "var(Z) = 1."

Page 886, Problem 54, part (b). The period should be a question mark.

Page 897, Problem 19. For "p = 0.3" read "p = 0.5." Then the answer to part (b) is 0.166.

Page 917, Problem 6, "standard variation" should be "standard deviation."

Page A25, Section 5.1, #51. B(3) is in the interval [0, 6], not [0, 3].

Page A30, Section 5.5, #19. The answer is 0, not infinity.

Page A32, Section 5.8, #65. The units of speed are ft/sec, not m/sec.

Page A37, Section 7.3. Append "+ C" to #45, #47, and #51.

Page A58, Section 12.2, #19. The answer should be 11/36.

Page A58, Section 12.3, #1. The answer given does not match the problem stated.

Page A59, Section 12.4, #7. "P(X = -1) = 0.2" shoud be "P(X = -2) = 0.2."

Page A60, Section 12.4, #77(b). The answer should be 8e^{-4}.

Page A60, Section 12.4, #83. The answers given are for "at least one case." The answers for "at most one case" are 0.5819 and 0.5820.

Page A60, Section 12.5, #17. The answer should be 99.9%.

Page A60, Section 12.5, #33. E|X| = 0.798. (The solutions manual makes a different mistake: it has the scope of the square root wrong.)

Page A60, Section 12.6, #5. The answer given is for P(|X| > 2), not for P(|X| > 1).

Page A60, Section 12.6, #9. The answer should be "It converges in probability to 0.9," not 3/2.

Page A60, Section 12.6, #27. The answer to part (c) is wrong.

Page A60, Section 12.9, #5, part (d). The answer given is for the probability that at least one pot has some germinating seeds.

In the index, some of the page numbers are off by 1.

-- H. B. Enderton