Probability

Books

• Probability by Jim Pitman (listed as one of the 2 fav books of a math prof who posted a review of the Lin. Alg. book used in MIT's OCW class)
• Probabilities
  • by Peter Olofsson, 4.5 reviews (6 ratings)

MIT's OCW Class:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/ ... /index.htm

Questions I've made up:

Suppose you want to pay someone to put up 100 fliers around town, but you're worried they'll just take the money and not actually put up all the fliers. So you tell the guy who'll be putting up the fliers that you're going to randomly check a certain number of the fliers, and you'll pay him in proportion to the number of fliers you see up. Checking them is going to be a pain, so you want to minimize the amount of checking you'll have to do while still making sure he did all the work. How many fliers should you check?