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MHB What is the Average Speed of a Train Traveling 18 km in 20 Minutes?
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Undergrad Do you believe that continuum is Aleph-2, not Aleph-1?
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Undergrad P(X=x) in continuous distributions
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Undergrad Is probability theory a branch of measure theory?
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MHB Winning the Lottery: Calculating Probabilities of 6 Numbers Out of 34
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Undergrad Combinatorics - rooks on a chess board
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Undergrad Is Discrete Mathematics Hard and Is It Pure or Applied?
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Graduate Stationary probability in Markov
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Undergrad Have Computers Simulated the Infinite Monkey Theorem to Recreate Literature?
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Graduate Calculating Waiting Time with Weighted Servers in Queueing Theory
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Undergrad N events occur in one Poisson process before m events
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MHB What is the probability of getting two red balls from box II?
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MHB Proof of Sets: Proving (i) and (ii)
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Undergrad Poisson distribution with conditional probability
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MHB Calculating Probability of Filing >3 Claims Under Insurance Policy
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MHB with Simple Interest Problems
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MHB Proving equivalence to Euclid Parallel Postulate
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High School Why Is the Distance Between Two Real Numbers Given by Their Absolute Difference?
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Undergrad Solve Math Problem: Add Red Marbles for 60% Red
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Graduate Monty Hall: How Can the Host's Intentions Affect the Outcome of the Game?
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Undergrad Empty Set Confusion: Why is it Not Counted in Cardinality?
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MHB Ratio of Boys & Girls in Class: 24 Boys & 16 Girls?
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High School Why is the %change of the %change of a sequence so chaotic?
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Undergrad Help with a difficult (?) regression
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MHB Find the probability that one receives a chocolate & a toffee
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MHB What is the probability of a customer only insuring one non-sports car?
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High School Simplifying Sqrt(y^6): Do We Need Abs Value Bars?
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High School Cant get Venn diagram to agree with Demorgan's Law
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Undergrad Lorenz Curves and Distributions....
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MHB Calculating 5-Star Ratings to Reach 4.85 Rating
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High School The CDF of the Sum of Independent Random Variables
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Undergrad Sum principle proof: discrete mathematics
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MHB Calculating Z-Scores for Krabby Patty Sales: Help and Examples
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Undergrad Proof to the Expression of Poisson Distribution
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MHB In how many ways can a cube with 8 different vertices be oriented?
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High School How do I create a logarithmic scale graph and determine line spacing?
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MHB What is the expected value of attempting a field goal?
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Undergrad Why can sets contain duplicate elements?
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MHB with Cost,Volumn,Profit and Trade Discount
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Undergrad How does a disjoint union differ from a set of sets?
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Undergrad Is for every x in domain D, Q(x) false if Q(x) is false for all x in D?
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Undergrad Prove if x + (1/x) = 1 then x^7 + (1/x^7) = 1.
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Graduate Consult: NP=P and P (3-SAT) - Is It Well Known?
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Graduate Blackjack Risk of Ruin Calculator | Formula on Blackjack Attack p. 137
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MHB Marginal PDF for Sum of Squares: Identifying Distribution and Calculation Method
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MHB Shaded region in terms of set notation
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MHB Rules of Inference for Proving p→(p→q)→(p→q)
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High School How many possible states can 10 floating marbles occupy in a 10x10x10 box?
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Graduate Covariance matrix for transformed variables
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Graduate Circular reasoning and proof by Contradiction
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MHB Solving a Complex Logical Equivalence in CNF Form
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MHB Prove relationship between sets
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MHB Logical Implication: Evaluating Truth of Claims
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Undergrad Difficulty with distribution functions
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MHB Can the Probability of a Number Being a Product of Primes be Calculated?
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MHB Find P((A∪B)'): Mutually Excl. & P(A)=P(B) = 1/5
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Undergrad Cancellation law multiplication natural numbers
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MHB Proving Russell's Paradox in Predicate Calculus
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Undergrad Why is b>1 and x,y positive in logarithm definition?
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High School How can we accurately model data using curve fitting techniques?
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Undergrad Logic Game: Abelard & Heloise - Naturals xu-yt > v^z
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Undergrad What is the function of this graph?
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Undergrad Recursion theorem: application in proof
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MHB Stuck with probability question involving tree diagram?
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MHB Male Customers Preferring Non-Fiction: Proving Independence
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MHB Probability question involving a lift
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Undergrad Is the negation of the statement in the book correct too?
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MHB Probability question where an object is chosen randomly out of two objects
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Undergrad Why does the author use the notation ##f_c(d)## instead of ##f(c,d)##?
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High School Real Probability: Rational vs Irrational Numbers
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Undergrad Some questions about bases and the decimal system.
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MHB Can Irrationals Be Matched One-to-One with Natural Numbers?
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MHB Find the probability that E' occurs at least once
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Graduate Bin Width for Overlay Plots of Data + Estimation
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Undergrad Boas 1.13 Compound interest/geometric series
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MHB Estimate the cost for tyres using the mean
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Undergrad Sequential vs simultaneous probability
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Undergrad Why is the empty set a proper subset of every set?
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Undergrad {a,-a,0} ∈ Z and inverse under division, plus notation Q
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Graduate Question about axiom of regularity
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MHB Determine the location of the subset
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MHB Solve Set Problems on Books (Sweating): Get Ideas Now!
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MHB How Do I Calculate the Probability of Two Events in Email Marketing?
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Graduate Finding the frequency of sinuosid in a constant + sinusoid?
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Undergrad Lack of Fit in Ordinal Regression -- Analysis/Alternatives?
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Undergrad Efficient Monte Carlo Fitting with Python Package Emcee and MCMC Analysis
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Undergrad Not sure how to deal with the abstract nature of maths
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Undergrad Proving the Implication of p and (p -> q) to q without Truth Tables
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Graduate Stopping rule for quality control problem
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MHB Standard Deviation of Swim Times for King of the Hill Triathlon
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Undergrad Likelihood of some points fitting a derived function....
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Undergrad Change of variables many-to-many transformation
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MHB Changing Base with Logs: How to Convert Expressions Using Base 14?
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Undergrad Combinatorics problem on drawing sample with given mean
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MHB Tournament Scheduling: Combinatorics Ideas
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Undergrad Intersection & union of closed and open sets?
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Undergrad Smoothness of Discrete Functions
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Undergrad Using Logical Equivalences to Simplify a Statement
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MHB 7 Students, 7 Exercises: Min Phone Calls Needed?
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