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    1. The probability that the proportion of rolls showing a 5 or 6 after n rolls of a fair die is between 0.3 and 0.4 approaches 1 as n increases without limit. 2. To be 95% certain that the sample mean of measurements from a distribution is within 0.1σ of the population mean μ, the required sample size is n=100. 3. The probability that the mean height of 100 people measured in London is over 163cm, given the population mean is 160cm and standard deviation is 15cm, is approximately Φ(1.33). 4. The probability of not going bankrupt after 1000 games of gambling, starting with £20 and a 0.55

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    1. The probability that the proportion of rolls showing a 5 or 6 after n rolls of a fair die is between 0.3 and 0.4 approaches 1 as n increases without limit. 2. To be 95% certain that the sample mean of measurements from a distribution is within 0.1σ of the population mean μ, the required sample size is n=100. 3. The probability that the mean height of 100 people measured in London is over 163cm, given the population mean is 160cm and standard deviation is 15cm, is approximately Φ(1.33). 4. The probability of not going bankrupt after 1000 games of gambling, starting with £20 and a 0.55

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    1. The probability that the proportion of rolls showing a 5 or 6 after n rolls of a fair die is between 0.3 and 0.4 approaches 1 as n increases without limit. 2. To be 95% certain that the sample mean of measurements from a distribution is within 0.1σ of the population mean μ, the required sample size is n=100. 3. The probability that the mean height of 100 people measured in London is over 163cm, given the population mean is 160cm and standard deviation is 15cm, is approximately Φ(1.33). 4. The probability of not going bankrupt after 1000 games of gambling, starting with £20 and a 0.55

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    MTH794P Probability & Statistics for Data Analytics

    Coursework 6
    1. Suppose that I roll a (fair) die repeatedly. Let Sn be the total number of 5’s
    or 6’s that I observe after throwing the die n times. What is the

    lim P (0.3n < Sn < 0.4n)?


    n→∞

    2. X1 , X2 , . . . , Xn is a random sample from a distribution with mean µ and


    variance σ 2 . How large a sample must be taken in order that you are 95%
    certain that the sample mean
    i=1
    X
    Xn = Xi is within 0.1σ of µ?
    n

    3. Suppose that I measure the heights of 100 people in London. A person’s


    height has mean 160cm and standard deviation 15cm. Find the (approx-
    imate) probability that the mean height of these 100 people I measure is
    over 163cm. Assume each person’s height is independent from the others’.
    Express your answer in terms of the Φ function.

    4. [Gambler’s ruin problem] Suppose that we are gambling repetitively on a


    game with probability of losing £1 in each gamble 0.55 and winning £1 with
    probability 0.45. Starting from an initial capital of £20. Show that the
    probability we have not gone bankrupt after 1000 games is (approximately)
    at most 0.0057.

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