Math 3160 Fall 2017

Section 001

HW info

Alexander (Sasha) Teplyaev

Office hours: MWF 11:00--noon, or by appointment.

Syllabus (pdf)

The course will follow lecture notes by Rich Bass. Each chapter of the notes roughly corresponds to a bit less than 1 week of the course, with extra open source materials provided. No textbook is required. Extra materials: Grinstead and Snell's Introduction to Probability, The CHANCE Project (an open source textbook).


HW 1 (August 28 -- September 1):

Quiz 1 (Wednesday, September 6), based on HW 1 and simple probability problems.

  • Self-graded not-for-credit quick 5 minute Quiz;
  • here are answers and simple probability questions.
  • Quiz 1 with solutions.

    • HW 2 (September 2 -- September 9):

    Quiz 2 (Wednesday, September 13), based on HW.

  • Quiz 2 with solutions.

    • help on Venn Diagrams

    HW 3 (September 11 -- September 15):

    Quiz 3 (Wednesday, September 20), based on HW 2 and HW 3.

  • Quiz 3 with solutions.

    • HW 4 (September 18 -- September 22):

    Quiz 4 (Wednesday, September 27), based on HW 4.

  • Quiz 4 with solutions.

    • Test 1 (Wednesday, October 4)
    based on Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 and quizzes
    solutions to Test 1

    self-graded not-for-credit extra quiz

  • here are solutions

    One two-sided hand-written page of notes is allowed.


    HW 5 (October 6):

    Quiz 5 (Wednesday, October 11), based on HW 5.

  • Quiz 5 with solutions.

    • HW 6 (October 11):

    Quiz 6 (Wednesday, October 18), based on HW 6.

  • Quiz 6 with solutions.

    • HW 7 (October 18):

    Quiz 7 (Wednesday, October 25), based on HW 7.

  • Quiz 7 with solutions.

    • HW 8-9 (October 25):

    Quiz 8-9 (Wednesday, November 1), based on HW 8-9.

  • Quiz 8-9 with solutions.
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    HW 10 (November 1):

  • Quiz 10 (Wednesday, November 8) with solutions.
  • Strategy to transform continuous random variables.

  • here is a sample Test 2


    • Test 2 (Wednesday, November 15)
    based on examples, exercises, quizzes from
    Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (one question from each chapter).
    Two handwritten pages of notes are allowed.
    solutions to Test 2


    HW 11-12 (November 17):

    Quiz 11-12 (Wednesday, November 29), based on HW 11-12.

  • Quiz 11-12 with solutions.
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    HW 13-14 (December 1):

    Quiz 13-14 (Wednesday, December 6), based on HW 13-14.

  • Quiz 13-14 with solutions.
  • 9 sample final exam questions with answers
  • 10 sample final exam questions with answers
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    Review Sessions time and place:

  • Thursday evening (last week of classes) 12/7/17 5:00pm - 7:00pm MONT 112
  • Wednesday morning (exam week) 12/13/17 9:00am - 10:00am MONT 112
  • Thursday evening (exam week) 12/14/17 6:00pm - 7:00pm MONT 112
  • exteneded office hours will be scheduled

    Final Exam Date: Friday, December 15, 2017
    Final Exam Time: 8:00am - 10:00am
    Final Exam Place: MONT 319

    3 handwritten pages of notes are allowed on the final exam. In addtion, the table of distributions will be provided.
    There will be 10 problems: approximately 3 problems from Test 1 material, 4 problems from Test 2 material, and 3 problems from Chapters 11,12,13,14

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