Class summary: Monday, 2/17

I did some problems illustrating the use the normal approximation: One type of problems involved repeated tosses with a fair coin and questions like: What is the probability that in 1,000,000 tosses exactly (or at most) 499,000 heads show up? I also worked out a variant of the airline overbooking problem that we discussed earlier (similar to Problem 9 in Section 2.2 of the book).


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