Mathematics 210 - Spring term 2005 - Eighth assignment

This assignment is concerned with probability distributions. It is due before class time Wednesday, March 30.
  • Go to the MathSheet home page and then to the new applet page. Open a running copy of the spreadsheet and return to this page.
  • Log in immediately: File/Log in. Your login id is your Mathematics Department login name, and your password is your student number. This allows you to save and load spreadsheet files. Save your work frequently. To put it in simpler terms, save your work frequently.
  • Question 1. Make a table of areas under the graph of the standard normal function, spaced at intervals of 0.01 from x=0 to 5. Use Simpson's rule. How accurate are the values for x=1, 2, 3, 4, 5?

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  • Question 2. Use linear interpolation and interpolation using Simpson's rule to find the area under the standard normal curve between x=0 and 1.27568.

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  • Question 3. Find the exact probability and that obtained by using the normal approximation for obtaining between 80 and 123 heads in a toss of 200 fair coins.

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  • Question 4. Same question, but now for a loaded coin with the probability of heads equal to 0.43.

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  • Question 5. Set up 500 random numbers in column a (with rand). In some column b set up those same numbers rounded to 5 decimal places, and in column c the differences, scaled up by 105. Put those numbers in 10 bins (by their digit in the first place they might be non-zero) and make a bar graph of the distribution. (You will have to use other columns as well. rand returns a random value. Convert them when you have them. At some point you'll have to sort things. How will you get the rounded values?)

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