MATH 124 Section F1: Finite Mathematics
Fall 2003
145 Altgeld Hall, 2 p.m. MWF
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~johnmaki/math124.html

Instructor: John Maki
Department of Mathematics
Office: B1 Coble Hall
Office Hours: 12-1 p.m. TuTh, and by appointment
email: johnmaki@math.uiuc.edu

Textbook: Methods of Finite Mathematics, by John Brown and Donald Sherbert

Syllabus

Announcements:

• A review sheet (previously seen for Hour Exam #3) covering Chapters 1 and 2 is available here.
  
• A new review sheet covering Chapters 5 and 6 is now here.
  
• A new review sheet covering Chapters 7, 3, and 8 is now here.
  
• Class on Friday will be a continuation of the review we started on Wednesday. There will also be a review session on Sunday in Room 143 Altgeld (next door to our usual room) from 5-7 pm.
• I will have the graded homeworks and left-over copies of homework solutions available in class on Friday (and Sunday as well).

  Homework:
  Assigned 12/10: No more homework assignments.
  Assigned 12/8: Section 8.1 #18, 30
  Assigned 12/5: Section 8.1 #6, 7, 11, 16, 19, 20, 23
  Assigned 12/3: Section 3.3 #12, 13; Section 8.1 #2, 3, 9
  Assigned 12/1: Section 3.3 #3, 5, 8
  Assigned 11/21: Section 3.2 #1, 6, 10, 13, 15, 21, 30, 32, 35, 44
  Assigned 11/19: Section 3.1 #25, 32, 35, 38, 42, 43, 45, 48 (For 45 and 48: Recall what we meant by "equality" for matrices; so, perform the requested operation and see what happens to the variables and what equality forces us to say about the variables.)
  Assigned 11/12: Section 2.3 #8, 11, 14 (due 11/14); Section 3.1 #1, 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 17, 19, 22, 24 (due 11/19) [D'oh! I meant Section 2.4 for the first part...]
  Assigned 11/10: On second thought, no assignment for Wednesday. Instead, take a few minutes and start your review.
  Assigned 11/7: Section 2.3 #1, 4, 13, 14, 18, 22, 27, 35
  Assigned 11/5: Section 2.1 #21, 23, 30; Section 2.2 #4, 5, 7, 10, 12
  Assigned 11/3: Section 2.1 #1, 4, 8, 11, 14, 15, 26, 27
  Assigned 10/31: Section 1.6 #1, 5, 10, 14
  Assigned 10/29: Section 1.5 #21, 24 (That's all; please go back and give another try to the later problems in the previous assignment if you couldn't do them before...)
  Assigned 10/27: Section 1.4 #27, 28; Section 1.5 #2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 25
  Assigned 10/24: Section 1.3 #31; Section 1.4 #2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 17, 20, 22, 25
  Assigned 10/17: Section 1.3 #1, 6, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20, 25, 27, 30
  Assigned 10/15: Section 1.2 #2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 14, 16, 19, 24, 28, 41, 43, 47
  Assigned 10/13: Section 7.2 #14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23
  Assigned 10/10: Section 7.2 #1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 ("Balance point" is simply the EV, marked on the histogram; look at Figure 7.3 in the section to see an example.)
  Assigned 10/8: Section 7.1 #14, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27
  Assigned 10/6: Section 7.1 #1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 11
  For 10 and 11, you need the following information: A "probability distribution" is just a table containing the outputs of X in one column and the probabilities Pr(X=k) in the other column. ("k" is the output value in the other column.) For examples of this, see examples 3 and 4 in the textbook.
  Assigned 10/3: Section 6.5 #17, 20, 22, 25, 28, 29, 31, 34
  Assigned 10/1: Section 6.5 #1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16
  Assigned 9/29: Section 6.4 #2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14
  Assigned 9/24: Section 6.3 #17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32, 33 [due 9/29]
  Assigned 9/22: Section 6.3 #1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15 [revised 5 pm 9/22]
  Assigned 9/19: Section 6.2 #20, 21, 24, 27, 30, 32, 33, 35
  Assigned 9/17: Section 6.2 #1, 3, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 19 (Think: Birthday Problem)
  Assigned 9/15: Section 6.1 #17, 21, 24, 28, 29, 33, 34, 36, 40, 41
  Assigned 9/12: Section 5.3 #27, 30, 31; Section 6.1 #2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 19
  Assigned 9/10: Section 5.3 #18, 21, 22, 23, 26, and read all the examples in Section 5.3 [revised 3:10 pm 9/10]
  Assigned 9/8: Section 5.3 #1, 3, 7, 10, 14, 16
  Assigned 9/5: Section 5.2 #21, 24, 25, 28, 29, 32
  Assigned 9/3: Section 5.2 #3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19
  Assigned 8/29: Section 5.1 #11, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38
  Assigned 8/27: Section 5.1 #1, 4, 5, 8, 10