MATH108

Essential things you need to know for Test II

Note that the best way of getting a high grade is studying all the materials in your class note, inclass examples, and homework assignments. Chapter 4 Finding number of different simple events and calculating probability of an event (example, rolling two dice, calculate probability that the sum of two dice is 10 or more) Conversion between odds and probability Addition rule (formal case and disjoint case) Finding probability via complementary events (example P(at least one)=1-P(none)) Multiplication Rule (formal and independent case) Conditional Probability (example in page 173)

Chapter 5 Difference between discrete and continuous random variables Probability distribution of a random variable (definition and constructing a distribution table) Calculating mean, variance, and standard deviation from a distribution table (class example) Rare event rule Expected Value (lottery example) Binomial Probability Distribution (definition, identifying n, x, p and q) (example in p220) Calculating probability at a given x values using the binomial probability formula. (example p221~222) Calculating mean, variance, and standard deviation for binomial distribution (example p230-231)