Date	Sections of Text	Topics
Thursday, Aug. 20	1.1, 1.2	Matrices and matrix multiplication
Tuesday, Aug. 25	1.3	Solving systems of equations
Thursday, Aug. 27	1.4	Inverses of matrices
Tuesday, Sept. 1	2.1, 2.2	Graphing inequalities, linear programming
Thursday, Sept. 3	2.3	Solving linear programming problems: geometric method
Tuesday, Sept. 8	3.1	Simplex method: standard problems (25 minutes); Review of Chapters 1 and 2
Thursday, Sept. 10	3.1	Simplex method: standard problems (25 minutes); Test 1 on Chapters 1 and 2
Tuesday, Sept. 15	3.1	Simplex method: standard problems
Thursday, Sept. 17	3.2	Simplex method: non-standard problems
Tuesday, Sept. 22	3.2	Simplex method: non-standard problems
Thursday, Sept. 24	4.1, 4.2	Sets, set operations, Venn diagrams
Tuesday, Sept. 29	4.3	Counting using Venn diagrams (25 minutes); Review of 3.1-3.2
Thursday, Oct. 1	4.3	Counting using Venn diagrams (25 minutes) Test 2 on 3.1-3.2
Tuesday, Oct. 6	4.4	Multiplication principle and tree diagrams
Tuesday, Oct. 13	4.5	Permutations and combinations
Thursday, Oct. 15	4.5	Permutations and combinations
Tuesday, Oct. 20	5.1	Probability (25 minutes); Review of Chapter 4
Thursday, Oct. 22	5.2	Probability (25 minutes); Test 3 on Chapter 4
Tuesday, Oct. 27	5.3	Uniform probability distributions
Thursday, Oct. 29	5.4	Conditional probability
Tuesday, Nov. 3	5.5	Using conditional probability in tree diagrams
Thursday, Nov. 5	5.6	Independence and independent trials
Tuesday, Nov. 10	5.7	Expected value
Thursday, Nov. 12	6.1	Markov chains
Tuesday, Nov. 17	6.2	Multi-step transition probabilities and distribution vectors (25 minutes); Review of Chapter 5
Thursday, Nov. 19	6.2	Multi-step transition probabilities and distribution vectors (25 minutes); Test 4 on Chapter 5
Tuesday, Nov. 24	6.3	Regular Markov chains
Tuesday, Dec. 1	6.4	Absorbing Markov chains
Thursday, Dec. 3		Review

The final exam is Thursday, December 10, 8:00 - 11:00 a.m., in the usual room.

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