(New page: it probably will be obvious for most of you guys,but just in case.... for part a), after we take the drivitive we get something like: <math> 4*q^3*(1-q)^6-6*(1-q)^5*q^4=0</math> you ma...)
 
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then we can easily find q=6/10
 
then we can easily find q=6/10
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for part two we can divide both side with:
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<math> (1-q)^{k-1}*q^{n-k-1}</math>
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then we get:
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<math> q=(n-k)/n</math>

Revision as of 09:07, 3 November 2008

it probably will be obvious for most of you guys,but just in case.... for part a), after we take the drivitive we get something like:

$ 4*q^3*(1-q)^6-6*(1-q)^5*q^4=0 $

you may try to solve it this way: divide both side by q^3 and (1-q)^5, thus we get:

$ 4*(1-q)-6*q=0 $

then we can easily find q=6/10

for part two we can divide both side with:

$ (1-q)^{k-1}*q^{n-k-1} $ then we get:

$ q=(n-k)/n $

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