Harvard University, fas   
Fall 1998   

MATH Xa

Assignments


  • Due Friday, September 25:
    Read sections 1.1, 1.2
    Problems: Section 1.4, 1, 2, 4, 6, 7
    Do #5 on a separate sheet.
    Solutions
  • Due Monday, September 28:
    Read sections 1.3, 2.1, Appendix A1
    Problems: Section 1.4 10, 11a, 11b(i-vi), 12a, 18
    Appendix A1.3 2(c-e), 7
    Solutions
  • Due Wednesday, September 30:
    Read sections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
    Problems: Section 1.4 8, 11b(ix-xii), 12c, 15
    Section 2.7 1, 2, 13, 22, 25
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Friday, October 2:
    Read sections 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, Appendix A2
    Problems: Section 1.4 19
    Section 2.7 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 16
    Appendix p.14 1-4
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Monday, October 5:
    Read sections 3.2, 3.3
    Problems: Section 2.7 7, 8, 19
    Section 3.4 1, 3, 7, 12, 15
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Wednesday, October 7:
    Chapter 2 15, 30
    Chapter 4 1-6 (on handout)
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Friday, October 9:
    Read sections 4.4, 4.5, and appendix on solving linear equations
    Chapter 4 10a (b and c for economists), 11, 15bde (note: curve is concave up on the interval (14, 21] ), 16, 18, 22
    Appendix p. 35 6a, 6c
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Wednesday, October 14:
    Chapter 4 8, 9
    Chapter 5 1b,c,c.5,d, 2a,b(ii-iv), 9a
    Additional problem 1 on handout
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Friday, October 16:
    Reading: Sections 5.3-5.5
    Chapter 5 2b(v-vii), 3, 6, 10, 14, 15
    Solutions
  • Due Monday, October 19:
    Chapter 5 4, 7, 11a,b,c,d, 16 for economics students, 17, 2 additional problems on handout
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Wednesday, October 21:
    Read 6.1 and 6.2
    Chapter 5 5, 8, 9bc, 11efg
    Chapter 6 1, 2, 4
    Do the essay on a separate sheet of paper
    Solutions
  • Due Friday, October 23:
    Read 6.3
    Chapter 6 7, 10, 14a, 16, 20, 21 and carbon dating problem on p.172 after #6
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Monday, October 26:
    November 2, 1994 exam, excluding 2 and 8
    Chapter 1 17
    Additional problems 1 and 2 on handout
    Solutions
  • Due Friday, October 30:
    Chapter 6 8, 18, 23, 25
    November 2, 194 exam #2
    Additional problems 1, 2, and 3 on handout
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Monday, November 2:
    Read 7.1 and 7.2
    Chapter 7 1, 3abc, 4abc, 6, 7a, 9
    Solutions
  • Due Wednesday, November 4:
    Chapter 7 3def, 7b, 10, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 21
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Friday, November 6:
    Read 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
    Chapter 7 2
    Chapter 8 1, 2, 5, 10a, 11
    Solutions
  • Due Monday, November 9:
    Read 8.4, 8.5
    Chapter 8 3acde, 4, 6abcef, 7, 8, 9ab, 10bc, 13abc, 14
    Solutions p.1 Solutions p.2
  • Due Friday, November 13:
    Read 9.1 and 9.2
    Appendix A p.21 3fg, 4de
    Appendix A p.35 6g
    Chapter 8 19, 24 (hint on handout), 25bd
    Chapter 9 1, 2, 7
    Additional problem on handout
  • Due Monday, November 16:
    Read 9.3 and 9.4
    Chapter 9 6, 8, 9, 10b, 11, 13, 16
  • Due Wednesday, November 18:
    Read 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
    Chapter 10 6, 8, 10, 13
    Additional problem 1 on handout
    Additional problem 2 is exploratory
  • Due Friday, Novemenber 20:
    Read 10.4
    Chapter 10 1, 7, 9, 11, 14, and 3 if you have talked about Pascal's triangle Additional problems 1 and 2
  • Due Monday, November 23:
    Read Chapter 11 Chapter 10 18, 19 (#18 is the one between 16 and 19--it looks like the computer called it 17 and 18)
    Chapter 11 2, 3bc, 7bc, 9
    Additional problems 1 and 2
  • Due Wednesday, November 25:
    Chapter 11 6, 11
    Chapter 12 1, 2, 3abcdg, 4abeg, 5abcd
  • Due Wednesday, December 2:
    Chapter 12 3ef, 4dhj, 5efg, 7, 9, 11bcdf, 12bc, 13abc
  • Due Friday, December 4:
    Chapter 12 14abcd
    Chapter 13 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11ab
  • Due Monday, December 7:
    Chapter 13 9a-d, 11cd (where k is a constant), 12
    Second exam from 12/11/95 all problemes except 3a. There is is typo on #2b. It should read f(x)=5*(3^(x/2)), not t/2.


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