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MHB Finding the Domain of a Logarithmic Function f(x) = log_5(8 - 2x)
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MHB If you are 8 ft away from the source, how long does the sound take to reach you?
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High School Adding error to a percentage change
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Undergrad Probability that X is less than a set
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MHB How Long to Grow Bacteria Population from 1,000 to 500,000?
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Undergrad Understanding Implication Problems: Examples & Explanations
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MHB Convert the recursive formula into the explicit form
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MHB Equivalent Rates - Valuation Mathematics
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Undergrad The general notion of a recurrence relation
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MHB Original Price Percent Increase
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MHB What Is the Total Amount Paid for a $35 Meal with a 10-15% Tip?
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Undergrad Simplest independent first-order expression in PA
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Undergrad How to interpret this definition of a subset?
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High School Maximize Your Odds: Choosing Winning Lotto Combinations from 1 to 58
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Undergrad Understanding part of the multinomial formula
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Undergrad Accuracy of the Normal Approximation to Binomial
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Undergrad Odds of dying of the same disease on the same date as another....
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Undergrad Conditional probability choosing from the objects
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Undergrad Random set of N points in a unit disc, what is the average nearest distance
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Graduate Creating a confounding variable
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Undergrad Pdf of Difference of Random Variables
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Graduate "Recovering" the Formula from a graph?
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Undergrad Why is the Axiom of Power Set needed?
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Undergrad Is every isomorphism between groups preserves cardinality of elements?
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MHB Math induction with sigma notation
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MHB Help with Logic Proof: Establishing 7.
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Undergrad Order Statistics: CDF Calculation for i.i.d. Random Variables
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Graduate How can I simulate 2D correlated data with continuous-valued variables?
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MHB Number of rearrangements of letters
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MHB How to Calculate Tail/Tail Probability for Multiple Coin Tosses?
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High School What Is the Probability of Winning in This Ball Selection Game?
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MHB How to Prove the Negation of Nested Quantifiers After Instantiation?
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High School Improving Tennis Analysis: Incorporating Three Outcomes and Serve Probabilities
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MHB How many edges does the graph have?
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MHB How many new branches will the complement graph of a deleted edge have?
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Graduate How to correctly analyze the results of a preference study?
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Undergrad Independent events and variables
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MHB Prove: 2ε{a,2,b} in Set Theory
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MHB In how many ways can we create such a committee?
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MHB Determine the diameter of the graph
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Undergrad Why Are P-values Uniformly Distributed in Hypothesis Testing?
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Undergrad Mathematical difference between permutation&combination
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Undergrad How Can Fleet Mixing Optimize Crew Encounters in Regattas?
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Undergrad Probability Theory: Multinomial coefficients
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MHB Finding the Maximum Likelihood Estimator for a Density Function
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Undergrad Rayleigh distribution and the probability of a point
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MHB Calculating Heteroscedasticity: Is Correlation Between Variables Strong/Weak?
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High School Standard Deviation as Function of Sample Size
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Undergrad What's the converse of this statement?
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MHB Find Probability of two polygons
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MHB 411.1.3.15 Prove A\cap(B/C)=(A\cap B)/(A\cap C)
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Graduate Continuous output: logistic vs linear regression
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Undergrad Efficiency prediction (minimum versus average)
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Undergrad Other linear fitting than least squares
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Undergrad What is mathematical induction
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MHB Solving Uncertainties: Explaining My Mistakes
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Undergrad Maxwell and The distribution of velocities in a gas
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High School Megastat's Regression Analysis keeps asking confidence level
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Graduate Mathematical inequality measures for the social sciences
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High School How might determinism affect probability?
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Graduate Using incorrect models to infer correct ones.
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Undergrad If k divides 25 what is prob(k odd)?
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MHB ZFC and the Pairing Principle .... Searcoid Theorem 1.1.5 ....
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Undergrad Godel's unprovable statement - Numberfile
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Graduate Bayesian Priors and relation with ignorance
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MHB Question about Bayesian Inference, Posterior Distribution
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High School Question about a Logarithmic Property
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MHB Stats question on premiership goals
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High School Why is pH a negative logarithm?
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Undergrad Why the emphasis on first-order logic?
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Undergrad Loophole in Godel's Incompleteness Theorem?
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Undergrad Uncertainty of coefficients after a least square fit
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MHB Pr of exactly one dice showing 2
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High School An elementary confusion on discrete or continuous variable
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Graduate Similarity between -/+ weighted distributions
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Undergrad Percentage of a normalized value
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High School Question about Compound Interest Formula
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MHB Tricky Logic Puzzle with 26 Variables
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Undergrad What is truth in the completeness theorem?
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MHB What Does Rejecting the Null in ANOVA but Not Hartley's FMAX Mean?
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Undergrad How To Find 68% Confidence Interval After Running MCMC
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MHB Chance performance on a yes/no task where no is correct 2/3 of the time?
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Undergrad Many-valued inference possible: extant?
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Undergrad T-distribution, standard error - how to interpret
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Undergrad Finding CDF of Maximum of Order Statistics of Random Variables
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Undergrad Distribution of ratio std Normal and sqrt chi squared
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Undergrad Proving p -> q: What Does a False Derivation Mean?
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MHB Solving 10-14 Equivalence Arguments: R to neg(w v s)
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Undergrad Lowest probability for physical possibility
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Undergrad The CDF from the characteristic function
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Undergrad What is the correct expectation value for this game with redraw?
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MHB Find P(Q') B) P(Q union R) C) P(R')
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MHB Having difficulty finding the elements in each set
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MHB Trouble determining truth value of logic statements
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Undergrad Difference between Constructive proof and Existential Generalization?
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Graduate 2 samples T test in case of non-normal distribution
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Graduate Is Newtonian Mechanics as Correct as General Relativity?
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MHB Problems with Percentage: From 300 to 3,850 - what percentage increase is that?
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Undergrad Estimating a mean from games of ruin
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MHB Optimizing Wireless Internet Coverage for Houses: A Greedy Algorithm Approach
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