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MATH 147 Exam III

Date: Monday April 16, 2007

Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: Lecture Hall 1

General Information

 

l   Chapters 15- 20

l   Closed Book

l   1 3x5 card with notes

Size will be enforced

l   Calculator Needed

l   Tables will be provided

l   Sample Exams on Class Website

l   Exam will be timed

Review

l   Material in Textbook

l   Old Quizzes

l   Problem Assignments

l   Review Problems

l   Vocabulary

Chapter 15

l   Rearrangement of Red and Green marbles.

l   Binomial formula

»  chance that an event will occur exactly k out of n times

Chapter 16

l   Law of averages

l   Sum of the Draws

l   Box Models

Chapter 17

l   Expected Value

l   The Standard Error

l   Using the Normal Curve

l   Classifying and counting

l   Short Cut method

Chapter 18

l   Probability Histograms

l   Probability Histograms and the Normal curve

l   The Normal Approximation

l   Probability of exactly k successes

l   Probability of between a and b successes

Chapter 19

l   The Literary Digest Poll

l   Quota Sampling

l   Using Chance in survey work

l   Bias

»  Selection Bias

»  Non Response

»  Response Bias

l   Chance Error

l   Estimate = parameter + bias + chance error

Chapter 20

l   Percentages

l   Standard Error for percentages

»   Gets smaller as the sample size increases

l   Correction factor

»  Sampling without replacement

»  Sample is large re the population

 

 

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