STA104/MTH135: Probability

Homework #8: More Expectations

Due: Thursday, Nov 9

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

• Problems (pp. 372ff)
  

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  31

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  66

  68

• Exercises (pp. 384 ff)

  None. After last week, we need a short assignment!

• Another Problem
  
• Cary wanders across Duke's campus, giving $1 to strangers (all students). Assuming the students are, independently, equally likely to be freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors, how much money should Cary expect to pay to give a dollar to someone from each class? (HINT: Let X₁ be the number of dollars given until students from at least 1 class have a dollar; X₂ the number of additional dollars given until students from at least 2 classes have dollars; X₃ the number of additional dollars given until students from at least 3 classes have dollars; etc. Obviously E[X₁]=1; what about X₂, X₃, X₄?)
• What's the probability Cary spends no more than $5?

Good Luck!