Math 115 - Homework 5

Due in recitation in recitation Wednesday Oct. 11 or Friday Oct. 13.

REMEMBER: THE FIRST MIDTERM TAKES PLACE TUESSDAY OCTOBER 3.

No homework is due the week of October 3 due to midterm and Fall Break. Instead I suggest you do the sample problems for the midterm.

Reading: Chapters 1 and 2 of [P].

Maple :

  • Download and go through: Other topics "Permutations and combinations in Maple -- the Pennsylvania lottery" and "The birthday problem".

    • Core Problems :Chapter 2 of [P] except 2.75, 2.76.

    Other problems :

    Texts :

  • [C] Thomas’ Calculus Early Transcendentals Custom Edition for the University of Pennsylvania Pearson 2011. ISBN 10: 1-256-32659-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-256-32659-5.
  • [P] Schaum's Outlines Series "Probability", 2nd edition, by Seymour Lipschutz, McGraw Hill ISBN 0-07-135203-1 or 0-07-175561-0.
  • [H] "Linear Algebra" by Jim Hefferon, St. Michael's College; text dowloadable for free from http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linalg.html/.