Syllabus
MTH 103 B2 - Finite Mathematics
Fall 2007
Note- This syllabus is tentative and subject to change, and is
intended only as a rough guide for what may be covered in this semester.
Not all subjects may be covered, and additional subjects may also be added.
Chapter 12: Logic (Sections 1-6)
Topics covered: Introduction to logic, statements,
connectives, symbolic logic, truth tables, implication, order of precedence,
logical equivalence, valid argument, direct and indirect proof, predicates
and quantifiers
Chapter 5: Sets and Counting (Sections 1-7)
Topics covered: Sets, unions and intersections,
subsets, complements, the inclusion-exclusion principle, Venn diagrams, the
multiplication principle, permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem
Chapter 6: Probability (Sections 1-6)
Topics covered: Probability, experiments, outcomes,
events, sample spaces, assignment of probabilities, odds, calculating probabilities,
conditional probability and independence, tree diagrams
Chapter 7: Statistics (Sections 1-6)
Topics covered: Frequency tables, charts, histograms,
medians, quartiles, box plots, probability distributions, binomial trials,
mean, expected value, variance, standard deviation, normal distributions
Chapter 10: The Mathematics of Finance (Sections 1 and 3)
Topics covered: Interest, amortization of loans