Probability is a measure of how likely an event is to occur within a specific range of possible outcomes. While it is often associated with gambling, probability theory plays a vital role in various ...

These are notes used to teach a one semester introduction to probability, random variables, and statistical inference at the CEGEP (roughly second-year university) level, with differential and ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...

We present eleven interesting problems in probability along with their solutions. These problems can be used as challenging and entertaining questions for high school or first-year college students. A ...

In order to get a more accurate estimate of the probability, we would need to look at a greater number of trials. Let’s imagine we have a bag containing two different types of sweet but we do not know ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ...

In order to use Venn diagrams when talking about events, we must first understand the term 'mutually exclusive'. Imagine there are two events: event A and event B. If they both cannot happen at the ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...