Mathematics for Elementary Teachers with Activities (5th Edition)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780134392790
Author: Beckmann, Sybilla
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 13.3, Problem 1P
Suppose that a student in your class wants to know why we multiply only three of the lengths of the edges of a box in order to calculate the volume of the box. Why don‘t we have to multiply all the lengths of the edges?
- Explain to this student why it makes sense to calculate the volume of a box as we do.
- Describe some problems or activities that might help the student understand the calculation
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(b) An otherwise fair six-sided die has been tampered with in an attempt to
cheat at a dice game. The effect is that the 1 and 6 faces have a
different probability of occurring than the 2, 3, 4 and 5 faces.
Let θ be the probability of obtaining a 1 on this biased die. Then the
outcomes of rolling the biased die have the following probability mass
function.
Table 1 The p.m.f. of outcomes of rolls of a biased die
Outcome 1 2 3 4 5 6
Probability θ
1
4
(1 − 2θ)
1
4
(1 − 2θ)
1
4
(1 − 2θ)
1
4
(1 − 2θ) θ
(i) By consideration of the p.m.f. in Table 1, explain why it is
necessary for θ to be such that 0 < θ < 1/2. [2]
(ii) The value of θ is unknown. Data from which to estimate the value
of θ were obtained by rolling the biased die 1000 times. The result
of this experiment is shown in Table 2.
Table 2 Outcomes of 1000 independent rolls of a biased die
Outcome 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 205 154 141 165 145 190
Show that the likelihood of θ based on these data is
L(θ) = C θ395 (1 − 2θ)
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Problem: The probability density function of a random variable is given by the exponential
distribution
Find the probability that
f(x) = {0.55e-0.55 x 0 < x, O elsewhere}
a. the time to observe a particle is more than 200 microseconds.
b. the time to observe a particle is less than 10 microseconds.
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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers with Activities (5th Edition)
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