Exam 3
MCS 256 Exam 3
This exam will be given in class on Monday, April 21.
It will be a closed-book exam.
You may use one 3"-by-5" note card with anything you want written on
both sides.
You may also use your 3"-by-5" note cards for previous exams.
TOPICS COVERED
- Combinatorics:
How to count without counting
- Basic principles of counting
- Linearly ordered arrangements
- Unordered selections
- Distributions/functions
- Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics
will not be on this exam.
- Generating functions will not be on this exam.
- Probability
- Probability spaces, probability rules
- Conditional probability; independence
- Random variables, distributions
- Special distributions
Maple solutions of old exam problems