University of New England

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science

Bob Murison, April 3, 2003

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PROBABILITY

Probability is a measure of uncertainty and this talk attempts to explain what probability represents, putting these ideas into a mathematical framework and how to answer the HSC questions on probability.

This talk is sectioned:

1. The understanding of events that are uncertain,
2. Formalizing probability with mathematics,
3. Worked examples from HSC Mathematics to demonstrate how to organize the problem,
4. Worked examples from HSC Mathematics Extension 1.