Please note that the college is closed both tomorrow (Wed Oct 9) and next Monday (Oct 14), so we won’t have class again until Wed Oct 16. In the meantime, please review the introductory material on probability we started discussing yesterday, and start working on the “HW5-Probability” WebWork set (due Fri Oct 18).
In addition, I wanted to let you know about a Math Club talk on Thursday which is very relevant to our course. I will be there, and I strongly encourage you to attend if you can. (To incentivize you to attend, you will earn 1pt towards your participation grade if you do attend! Also, you get free pizza.)
Here are the details (taken from the Math Club’s OpenLab site):
Date: Oct. 10, 2019
Time/Room: 12:45-2pm in N1002
Speaker: Johann Thiel (NYCCT)
Title: Probability and Games
Abstract: In this talk we will analyze various games of chance, including the Monty Hall Problem and Race to the Finish from Let’s Make a Deal and Plinko from The Price is Right. We will use both theoretical and computational methods to understand the probabilities of winning such games.
Pizza will be served at 12:45pm.
