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Undergrad Ain't No Proof By Contradiction
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Undergrad Permutation and combination problem
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Graduate Calculating Probability and Profit for Drilling Wells: A Binomial Approach
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Undergrad People Who Like A or C: Subset of Those Who Don't Like B and C
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Undergrad Statistics Question: Calculating P(B U D)
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Undergrad Need help with statistics / distributions
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Graduate Let X be a set. A partition of X is a subset
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Graduate Do I have this definition right? (and a suprise bonus question on sequences)
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Graduate Understanding Proofs Involving Subsets
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High School Understanding Probability: Mutually Exclusive, Independent, And/Or Problems
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Graduate Proving Dedekind Cuts for D = {x: x \in Q and (x \leq or x^2 < 2)}
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Undergrad Likely Winner of Women's Shooting Contest
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Undergrad Midterm Practice: Could some verify my proof
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Graduate Probability Density Function of two Resistors in Parallel
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Undergrad Simulating Brownian Motion w/ Drift & Diffusion - Step-by-Step Guide for Excel
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Undergrad Solving Problem with Marbles - David's Challenge
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High School Average Deviations: Why is it Always Zero?
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Undergrad Bijections result when the function is surjective and injective
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Graduate What Is the Distribution of 2(X̄ - 10) / S?
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Undergrad Comparing Sample Means with Pooled Variance Estimate
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Graduate Solving Choice Functions: Axioms, X={1,2,3}, Finding c:P(X)--->X
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High School How Many Ways to Split Students and Combine Outfits?
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Undergrad Probability Density Function - Need Help
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Graduate Cartesian Product: \mathbb{R}^3
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Graduate Are there sets that are not partitionable in certain ways?
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Graduate Joint PDF of Random Variables X & Y -1 to 1
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Graduate Gaussian Random Variables Question
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High School Mutually exclusive/independent events
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High School Probablity of choosing the same number
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Graduate How to prove the double containment argument for infinite operations with sets?
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High School Can 12 People Share 3 Tables in 5 Days for Dinner?
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Undergrad Combinations & Counting: Is There a Proven Formula?
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Graduate How Many Choice Functions Exist for Finite and Infinite Sets?
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Graduate Autocorrelation, expectation, moment
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Graduate Theorem: Bijections & Axiom of Choice
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Undergrad Combinations are just an application of the counting principle?
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Undergrad What is the probability of a customer leaving a workshop happy?
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Graduate Testing hypothesis and significance level
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Undergrad What is the confidence interval for a 100 ohm resistor with 10% tolerance?
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Graduate To show that equivalence classes of ker f are concentric circles
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Undergrad Method of Moments: Solving For Theta
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High School Understanding Functions: Puzzled by f(x) = sqrt(x)?
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Graduate Calculating Ratios of Moments: Spatial Extent of Distribution
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Graduate Examples of Surjections from Uncountable Sets to Countable Sets
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Graduate Finding Upper and Lower Bounds for Subsets in R and Q
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High School If there is a box which has 7 red balls
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Graduate The Universe/Set Theory Conflict?
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Undergrad Verifying R is an Order Relation on {1,2,3}
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Undergrad Probability of Winning and Losing in a 3-Round Game
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Graduate Generalized likelihood ratio test
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Undergrad How many arrangements are possible
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Graduate Bacteria Colony Distribution in a Nutrient Dish
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Graduate How can the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm help simulate a Normal Distribution?
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Undergrad Stock Market Investor: Probability of Retirement as a Winner
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Graduate Rao-Blackwells Theorem: Efficient Estimation Using Sufficient Statistics
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Graduate Can X_n Converge to X in Probability if it Doesn't Meet Definitions 2 or 3?
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Graduate Calculate E(XY) when X~N(0,1), Y=X^2~\chi^2(1)
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Undergrad Calculating Probability with a Normal Distribution
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Undergrad Calculating Number of Distinct x Tuples from a Set A
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Undergrad Probability Formula for Testing Joe's Claim in a Statistics Class
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High School What is the Probability of Getting More Heads than Tails in 4 Coin Tosses?
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High School What is Set Theory and How is it Used in Science?
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Graduate Various stuff, mostly about sets
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High School What do I need on the final to get an A in the class?
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Graduate Probability Axioms: Deriving Version 2 from Version 1
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Undergrad What is the probability of choosing at least one defective calculator?
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Undergrad First-order logic : repesenting graphs
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Graduate Second-order and Fixed-point Logic: Describing Graphs
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High School Craps Statistics: Win/Loss/Point Odds Explained
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Graduate Proving the Non-Equivalence of 'P V Q' to Any Horn Formula
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High School Proving a Logical Statement: Puzzling Over Proving Pb and Not P1...
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Graduate Interesting probability problem
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Graduate Proving Infinite Sigma-Algebra's Countable Disjoint Subsets
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Undergrad Connectives Homework: Incomplete Set, Propositions P & Contradictions
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Graduate Ordinal Exponentiation Comparison
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Undergrad Calculating Probability of Sixth Die Face on Nth Consecutive Throw
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Graduate Is the Intersection of a Sequence in a Sigma-Algebra Also in the Sigma-Algebra?
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Graduate Definitions in terms of truth-functions
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Undergrad What is the conditional probability of P(X > 0.2 | X < 0.6)?
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Undergrad Method of moments and integration
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High School Four tires to mount on a car these can be mounted
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Graduate How can I improve my understanding of Maximum Likelihood estimators?
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High School Denoting the Largest Member of a Set: Symbols & Techniques
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Graduate Integration to d density function
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Graduate What Intervals [a,b] Exhibit Both Open and Closed Properties in the Rationals?
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Undergrad What is the minimum number of students for a likely win in a birthday bet?
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Graduate Understanding Relations in Mathematics
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High School Which Cup Will Be Hottest After 15 Minutes?
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Graduate Are the Sets P and Q Equal? Investigating 3-Tuples in the Natural Numbers
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Graduate Sme question about irrational numbers
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Undergrad Why is Dedekind's Cut Used to Define Irrational Numbers?
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Graduate Primitive recursive functions :mad:
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Undergrad Upper Bound for IQ Scores Exceeding 130 Using Chebychev's Inequality
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High School Which Is the Correct Half-Life Formula?
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Graduate Combinatorics: How Many Vectors with Square Sum = K?
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Graduate Show that the set of points on a line is equinumerous
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Graduate How Do Arrows Function as Elements in Category Theory?
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Undergrad Calculating Probability of Pregnancy In Vitro
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Graduate Why Is the Area Calculation of a Triangle Using Given Algorithms Unstable?
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Undergrad Can you prove that this set is countable?
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