ECSE-2500 Engineering Probability, RPI, Spring 2011 Home Page
Homework 3, due 2pm Tues Feb 15, 2011
Notes
- Email your solutions to
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- You may do this homework in teams of two people.
- Put the homework number, your names and RCS-IDs on the homework. (E.g. I would say something like Homework 3, W. Randolph Franklin, frankwr.)
Questions
- (5) Assume that it is known that one person in a group of 100 committed a crime. There is a pretty good forensic test. It makes errors (either way) only 0.1% of the time. You are given the test; the result is positive. What's the probability that you are the criminal? (Use Bayes.)
- (5 pts) Do exercise 2.62 on page 88 of the text.
- (5 pts) Do 2.69, but use the interval [-2,2].
- (5 pts) Do 2.72.
- (5 pts) Do 2.76.
- (5 pts) Do 2.82.
- (5 pts) Do 2.92.
- (5 pts) Do 2.95.
- (5 pts) Do 2.98.
- (5 pts) Do 2.101, but use 6 chips.
- (10 pts) Do 1.127.