Instructor: Michael Arciero arciero@math.uri.edu
                  Office: Tyler 104B 874-4186
                  Hours: Mon, Wed. 10:00-11:00; Tues,  9:00-10:00;  also by appointment.

Text: Johnson/Mowry, Mathematics A Practical Odyssey, ITP, Third Edition

Introduction: The title of this course derives from the fact that we will generally be studying sets with finite number of elements. The focus is on combinatorics and probability as applied to situations arising in everyday life. This course is one of two designed to satisfy the math requirement for liberal arts-type majors; students are assumed only to have an understanding of arithmetic and a smattering of algebra. For many students, this may be the only math course taken here at U.R.I. It is my hope that
students find the course interesting and useful. We will be covering Chapters 2 and 3, Chapter 4 through section 4.5, and, time permitting, a few sections from Chapters 5 and 7.

Grading: There will be five components to your grade, each will count for 20%.

Tests: There will be three one-hour tests, scheduled Tuesday 2/21, Monday 4/2, and Monday 4/30.

Final: This is scheduled for Monday, 5/30, the last day of class. It is cumulative, but is designed to take no more than two hours.

Quizzes: These will be given each class unless there is a test scheduled. I will drop the lowest one or two.

It is very important that you attempt to do all the suggested problems as homework, though I will not collect them.  An important purpose of the problems is to make you think through and master the ideas of the subject so that you can confidently apply your knowledge in new situations. You will learn a great deal from honest hard work on a problem, even if you don't succeed in solving it. Then when you ask me about it in class the solution may seem obvious. Read the text material before working on the problems.

We will be working on many homework problems in class. I will also give you work sheets that will be done in class.

The use of calculators is strongly recommended, especially for Chapters 4 and 5. Any scientific calculator with basic statistics functions will do. The brief introduction of using the calculator for the basic statistics will be given in the class.
 

Extra Help: You may make an appointment with me if possible. There is also free tutoring available at CCE. More on this when the schedule is finalized.
 

 Suggested Homework Problems
 

2.1	7, 11, 23, 28, 41, 51
2.2	4, 5, 11, 15, 35
2.3	1, 4, 5, 11, 17, 49
2.4	5, 11, 19, 20, 25, 33, 35
2.5	7, 11, 14, 19
3.1	7, 10, 15, 23
3.2	7, 11, 19, 23, 31, 35, 47, 53
3.3	6, 11, 23, 31, 41, 49, 53, 61
3.4	5, 7, 9, 19, 25
3.5	5, 11, 15, 19, 23, 29, 33
3.6	5, 7, 13, 19, 31
3.7	7, 15, 19, 23, 39, 41
4.1	5, 7, 11, 19
4.2	5, 7, 11, 14, 19, 23
4.3	3, 7, 14, 15
4.4	5, 7, 11, 15, 19
4.5	1, 5, 7, 11, 19
5.1	3, 8, 9, 17, 22
5.2	2, 8, 12, 13, 34
7.0	23, 31, 35, 41
7.1	1, 7, 19
7.2	5, 7, 15, 31, 49