Essential Probability Practice Workbook with Answers: A Self-Teaching Guide - Softcover

McMullen, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941691625 ISBN 13: 9781941691625

Publisher: Zishka Publishing, 2024

Synopsis

This self-study probability workbook, authored by experienced teacher, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., teaches essential probability skills beginning with first concepts. Answers and explanations are included to all of the problems. Many of the more involved problems show you how to obtain the answer two (or more) different ways to help convince you that the answer is correct. Topics include:

• permutations and combinations, including the case of repeated elements
• a variety of counting problems, like the handshake problem
• probability rules, like when you may add or multiply probabilities together
• classic problems, like the birthday problem
• coins, dice, and cards, including unfair coins or dice
• random selections of balls or socks, with or without replacement
• probability distributions, like the binomial and Poisson distributions
• basic data analysis, including the expected value and variance
• histograms
• conditional probability
• shapes and grids
• geometric probability
• coloring problems
• odds vs. probability

The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook of the Improve Your Math Fluency series to share his strategies for solving probability problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zishka Publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941691625
• ISBN 13: 9781941691625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 287