John Lensmire - Math 3C Spring 2011

Math 3C Spring 2011 Sections 1A and 1B

Professor:	David Weisbart
Professor's Course Page:	www.math.ucla.edu/~dweisbar/3c.1.11s/
TA:	John Lensmire
Lecture:	Mon, Wed, Fri 9:00-9:50 AM in WG Young Hall CS 76
Discussion:	1A: Tues 9:00-9:50 AM in MS 5138 1B: Thur 9:00-9:50 AM in MS 5117
Homework:	3C Homework

Announcements:

6-3: See here for a summary of the continuous distributions we have learned.
6-3: See here for a few quick examples of material from 12.6. Your book also is worth checking out for more information.
5-10: See here for a summary of the discrete distributions we have learned.
4-28: See here an example problem I did in Tuesday section, but did not get to on Thursday, as well as a hint on how to approach the Russian Roulette problem from this week's homework.
4-21: See here for some more examples of independence.
4-19: Remember that this Friday is the first Midterm. You may want to look at the sample midterm posted on the professor's website. See here for an explanation of the Monty Hall problem using Bayes' Theorem.
See here for an interesting conditional probability problem (solution will be posted later). Also note that my Thursday office hours have been changed to Haines Hall A44 from 3:30-4:45. EDIT: Solution is now included.
See here for a more formal discussion on how to deal with overcounting, as well as a few examples.

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