Sudoku is a puzzle consisting of squares arranged in 9 rows and
9 columns. The 81...
Sudoku is a puzzle consisting of squares arranged in 9 rows and
9 columns. The 81 squares are further divided into nine 3 ✕ 3
square boxes. The object is to fill in the squares with numerals 1
through 9 so that each column, row, and box contains all nine
numbers. However, there is a requirement that each number appear
only once in any row, column, or box. Each puzzle already has
numbers in some of the squares.
Alisha wants...
Suppose you choose 5 cards from a standard 52-card deck (with 13
hearts, 13 spades, 13...
Suppose you choose 5 cards from a standard 52-card deck (with 13
hearts, 13 spades, 13 clubs and 13 diamonds). How many different
choices of cards are possible if a. you can choose any 5 cards from
the deck? b. all 5 cards must be hearts? c. you must choose four
kings and one queen? d. you must choose 3 kings and no queens? e.
you must choose at least 1 king and at least 2 aces?
We are creating a new card game with a new deck. Unlike
the normal deck that...
We are creating a new card game with a new deck. Unlike
the normal deck that has 13 ranks (Ace through King) and 4 Suits
(hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs), our deck will be made up of
the following.
Each card will have:
i) One rank from 1 to 15.
ii) One of 5 different suits.
Hence, there are 75 cards in the deck with 15 ranks for each of the
5 different suits, and none of the cards will...
1. Consider a standard card deck with 52 cards. There are 13
ranks, 1 to 13...
1. Consider a standard card deck with 52 cards. There are 13
ranks, 1 to 13 and each rank has 4 suits. We say that a
set of 4 cards is winning if the respective ranks
can be put in a consecutive order
a1,a2,a3,a4 so that
ai+1 = ai + 1. For example, the set of cards
{3hearts, 4spades, 5diamonds, 6hearts} is winning because the cards
have consecutive ranks 3,4,5,6. (The cards can have any suit.)
Suppose that you pick...
Suppose you are playing a game of five-card poker where you are
dealt a hand of...
Suppose you are playing a game of five-card poker where you are
dealt a hand of 5 cards from a standard deck of 52 playing cards.
Each card has one of 13 values, 2,3,…,10,J,Q,K,A2,3,…,10,J,Q,K,A,
and one of 4 suits, ♡,♢,♠,♣♡,♢,♠,♣
A hand called a royal flush consists of cards of
the values 10,J,Q,K,A10,J,Q,K,A, all from the same suit. For
instance, a royal flush with hearts would be
10♡,J♡,Q♡,K♡,A♡10♡,J♡,Q♡,K♡,A♡.
Now, actually getting a royal flush in poker is incredibly rare (in...
Rooks can move any number of squares horizontally or vertically
on a chess board. The n...
Rooks can move any number of squares horizontally or vertically
on a chess board. The n rooks problem is to arrange rooks on an n×n
board in such a way that none of the rooks could bump into another
by making any of its possible horizontal or vertical moves.
For this problem, the variables are each column (labeled 0, 1,
... , n−1), the the domain consists of each possible row (also
labeled 0, 1, ... ,n−1). In each column...
Suppose that the number of persons using an ATM in any given
hour between 9 a.m....
Suppose that the number of persons using an ATM in any given
hour between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. can be modeled by a Poisson
distribution with a mean of 12. In this case, the “unit of measure”
is an hour of time during the business day. Let X be the number of
periods who use the ATM in a given hour.
What is the standard deviation of the random variable X, i.e.,
the standard deviation of this Poisson distribution?...