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Fall 2001
Syllabus in HTML format
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This area contains information regarding the course.
List of all quizzesSo you don't have to dig through all of the old files, here is a summary of all the quizzes that we had. The actual quizzes are the ones with .html extensions. The .gif files are images used in the quizzes.
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Final ExamYou should expect 50 points from each of the three parts of the class. You should study from the exam, quizzes, class notes, and homework problems. It is not enough to be able to follow a solution. You need to be able to perform it yourself.
I will be in my office.
Tuesday, 1-4
Wednesday, 1-3Friday, 1-3
and I will be tutoring in Science 301 9-11 on Friday. There is all day math tutoring that day, though it tends to be VERY busy.
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Review for Exam 3Supplemental Problems
Chap. 3, 39-43, and 15-21
Chap. 10, 1-33 (every fourth)
Chap. 15, 1-23 and 35-45 (every fourth)
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Quiz for November 29, 2001
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Review for Exam 3The exam is Thursday, Dec. 6. Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Quiz for November 26, 2001Today we talked about exponential growth and formulas for compounded interest. For the quiz on Thursday you should be able to handle most any type of compound interest problem except for the one where you are continually making additional deposits.
Exam on December 6
We will have an exam on the 6th that will cover chapters 10, 15, and part of chapter 3.
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Credit Card Minimum Payment Interest JavaScript CalculatorCredit card interest calculator.
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Vanguard: S&P 500 Index Fund PerformanceThis index fund has performed at 13% since it was created in 1976.
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Sun-Sentinel: Humberto CruzExcellent weekly column on investing. Some of it is for older folks, but it has good advice for people just starting out on their own as well.
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Quiz for November 12, 2001On Monday, our quiz will cover the various aspects of linear growth, and we will cover exponential growth during class.
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Class notesToday in class, we continued to cover linear growth. We discussed arithmetic sums and the formulas to find them. For the quiz next Monday, you should be able to do problems similar to 4, 6, 13, 15, 17 from chapter 10.
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project_1I also wanted to extend the offer that you are welcome to work with people in the other section if you so desire.
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Quiz for November 8, 2001
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Final ExamsFor this class will be Saturday, Dec. 15th from 2-4 pm in Bellarmine (not Barbelin) 301 for both sections.
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Quiz for November 5, 2001
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No class on Nov. 15thI will be defending my thesis in Iowa that day, and we will not have class then, but there will be a project due on the following Monday before Thanksgiving.
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Class on Nov. 1 and Nov. 5On Nov. 1, we introduced probability and counting. We are starting chapter 15 and will spend two more classes on this section.
You need to understand the difference between permutations and combinations and some of the other uses of the multiplication rule.
Today, we will discuss probabilities for events that are equally likely and probabilities for events not equally likely. We will also discuss some new probability issues related to cards.
I will hand out a project in class next Thursday.
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Review for Exam Two
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Review for Exam TwoTopics that could be on the second exam.
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Homework due October 29, 2001
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The P versus NP ProblemThe Traveling Salesman Problem is in this class of problems. If you can find a technique that solves every traveling salesman problem quickly a $1,000,000 can be yours.
There are six other million dollar problems.
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Quiz for October 18, 2001Today we finished up chapter 6 by discussing the Repetitive Nearest Neighbor Algorithm and the Cheapest Link algorithm. Both classes were lucky and were had their considerable knowledge quizzed today. We will begin Chapter 7 next time and will have an exam a week from Monday, October 29. In chap. 7 we will discuss trees and minimum spanning trees, but not Steiner Points.
For practice problems, you should do Chap. 6/1-11/odd, 17, 19, 23, 29, 37, 41
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Traveling Salesman Problem GeneratorA web application I wrote to create your own Traveling Salesman Problems.
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