CPSC 411: Quiz 9
October 30, 2008
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- (1 pt) Consider a card game in which each player initially gets 5 cards
from a deck of 52 cards. Suppose someone claims "The probability
of getting 4 kings is one in a million." Regardless of the truth
of the claim, what is the underlying sample space to which the
person is referring?
- (2 pt)
What assumpion has to be made in order to do a probabilistic
analysis of a deterministic algorithm?
- (2 pt)
How does a randomized algorithm avoid the necessity of making
the assumption referred to in the previous question?