Chapter 8 Notes for Math 181
Finite Mathematics, Fifth Edition


Introduction to Detailed Notes

This is a set of notes that have been made on reading the textbook. There is no real attempt to have comments on absolutely everything in the book noted here. At the same time, there is supplementary material here that is not in the book.

In order to tie comments to specific locations in the book, I have used the available page ruler sheet to identify lines in the text. A copy of that page ruler sheet can be printed from The Index Sheet.

Chapter 8: Precalculus Review

Preliminary to Chapter 8
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all all There is special material on the web covering topics in Chapter 8 from a different perspective. The suggestion is that everyone read all of this special material on the web. The link to the first page is: Special Material for Chapter 8.
8.1 Random Variables and Distributions
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8.2 Bernouilli Trials and Binomial Variables
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8.3. Measures of Central Tendency
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8.4 Measures of Dispersion
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8.5 BNormal distributions
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©Roger M. Palay
Saline, MI 48176
November, 2010