STA104/MTH135: Probability

Homework #2: Axioms of Probability

Due: Thursday, Sep 14

Text Problems are from Sheldon Ross, A First Course in Probability (5th edn).

• Problems (pp. 54ff)
  

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• Exercises (pp. 61ff)

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• Another Problem
  This section of Statistics 104/Math 135 has forty students enrolled; if everyone has a birthday that is equally likely to be any of the 365 days of (non-leap) years, what is the probability that no student in the class has the same birthday as the instructor (me)?

Good Luck!