2017 September 15,

Math 265: Day 3

Carleton College, Prof. Joshua R. Davis

Due at the start of class on Day 5

Complete these problems. Write them up carefully, in the order assigned, for handing in with the rest of your homework.

(Some of these problems have answers in the back of the book. If you look at the answer before seriously attempting the problem, then you are Doing College Wrong.)

• 1.7
• 2.2, 2.5
• 2.8
• 2.11
• 2.13
• 2.26 (Hint: Let Y be the event that the cab was yellow and W the event that the witness reported yellow. The problem is giving you information about P(W | Y), P(W^c | Y^c), and P(Y).)