Homework Assignment #3

Statistics 220, Fall 2005

Due September 21

Show your work! Partial credit will be given on the basis of your work; writing down the answer without showing your work will get you no credit.

Problems from Devore:

  1. Exercise 2.52
  2. Exercise 2.58
  3. Exercise 2.64
  4. Exercise 2.76
  5. Exercise 2.78. Note that "iff" means "if and only if".
  6. Exercise 2.81
  7. Exercise 2.98
  8. Exercise 2.102

Non-Devore problem:
Show that if an event has probability 0 or probability 1, then it is independent of any other event.