Lessons from the famous 17th-century paradox of the Chevalier de Méré |
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| Authors: | José Daniel López-Barrientos Eliud Silva Enrique Lemus-Rodríguez |
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| Institution: | 1. Facultad de Ciencias Actuariales, Universidad Anáhuac México, Huixquilucan, Mexico;2. Facultad de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico |
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| Abstract: | We take advantage of a combinatorial misconception and the famous paradox of the Chevalier de Méré to present the multiplication rule for independent events; the principle of inclusion and exclusion in the presence of disjoint events; the median of a discrete-type random variable, and a confidence interval for a large sample. Moreover, we pay tribute to our original bibliographic sources by providing two computational tools to facilitate the students' insights on these topics. |
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| Keywords: | confidence intervals median multiplication rule principle of inclusion and exclusion |
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