MATH 1300 - The Nature of Mathematics
                            Spring 2014

                       Final exam study guide

The exam will be in our usual classroom on Friday, May 9
at 8:00AM until 10:00AM.  It will cover Chapters 11 and 14
and Sections 16.2, 8.5, and 1.4 of the textbook.

You will NOT be allowed to use the textbook or notes during the
exam.  You WILL be allowed to use a calculator if you would like.


Terms you should know how to define:

Rigid motion
Fixed point
Translation
Glide reflection
Census
Survey
Biased sample
Correlation
Causation
Controlled study
Placebo
Double-blind study
Permutation


You should know how to work problems like the study questions and homework
problems.  In particular, you should be able to answer questions about
the following topics:

Translations
Reflections
Symmetry types (Dn and Zn)
One-sample estimation
Two-sample estimation
Sampling bias
Counting with the Multiplication Rule
Counting with Permutations
Critical-Path Algorithm
Elections with Plurality-with-Elimination method


Things that will NOT be on the exam:

Border pattern types (section 11.7)
Combinations (from section 16.2)