Essays on Probability

Probability concepts are used determine how likely it is for something to happen. Investopedia states that a “probability refers to the percentage chance that something will happen, from 0 (it is impossible) to 1 (it is certain to occur), and the scale going from less likely to more likely (Investopedia, 2017).” By using this scale…

Probability has been around for a long time; a lot longer than people have called it probability. Likelihood, possibility, chance, and odds are all synonyms for probability. However, people studying probability and looking into games of chance started with a correspondence between the French mathematicians Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal in 1654. They were questioned about what should happen…

ABSTRACT The shipping industry is one of the leading mode of transportations that moves more than 80% of the goods transactions generated around the world. The technological advances increase the number and size of vessels, reducing operational costs generating great economies of scales. However, the high operational costs affect the profitability when crisis comes and…

Introduction: Monopoly is a board game that dates back to 1904. Elizabeth Magie created the game, The Landlord’s Game, to describe the e↵ect of land monopolism and the use of land value tax. Although some people enjoyed her game, it did not gain popularity until Charles Darrow reinvented it with new rules in 1935. He…

BACKGROUND INFORMATION The game theory generally is referred to as the branch of mathematics concerned with the analysis of strategies for dealing with competitive situations where the outcome of a participant’s choice of action depends critically on the actions of other participants. The game theory was introduced by John von Neumann, when he concluded that…

This paper explores about various ideas of privacy data protection. Now a day’s distinct types of information should be stored and depending upon the type of information, the level of protection measures should be taken into consideration i.e., if data stored is very sensitive like personal details of customers, business related of an organization then…

Probability of the outcomes in blackjack with various number of decks Introduction Blackjack is a simple trading card game that low chance to get a first winning hand. This trading card game is known by a lot of people mostly are teenagers and gamblers, but now it is not too common to hear in public…

Although the company desires the warehouse expansion completed within 40 weeks, there is only a 10. 38% capability to achieve that goal. Laid out below are the networks drawn out and then the critical path is laid out below it for the optimistic outlook on completion time, the most likely outlook and then the pessimistic…

Ever since I was a child I would have this playground near the swimming pool within my neighborhood, I and a few other children about my age would play different games every week. One day, a friend of mine introduced me to Noughts and Crosses, although where I come from, we call them ‘TIC TAC…

Bertrand Russell defined mathematics as “ not just an inflexible application of rubrics to pointless symbols but something much more creative and an art in itself (“Famous Mathematicians,” 2012, para 1).” He compared it to painting and how as painters make patterns with careful strokes of their brushes, mathematics can be described as a significant…