Member of the e-learning unit in Newcastle University's School of Mathematics and Statistics.

Lead developer of Numbas.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorial: x!/y! 10 years, 4 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorial: x!/y! 10 years, 4 months ago

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Fixed it so the first fraction always has a bigger numerator, and the second one always has a bigger denominator.
Wrote some advice.
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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorial: x! 10 years, 4 months ago

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Added a comment about using a calculator to the advice.
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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorial: x! 10 years, 4 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorial: x! 10 years, 4 months ago

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Wrote some advice. Made the parts gapfills.
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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Confidence Intervals 10 years, 4 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Confidence Interval 10 years, 4 months ago

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Wrote a description.
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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Confidence Interval 10 years, 4 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Confidence Interval 10 years, 4 months ago

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Wrote some advice, changed the notation for confidence intervals.
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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Confidence Interval 10 years, 4 months ago

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Rewrote the variables, trying to restore sanity.
The confidence interval for Friday was just made up, so it disagreed with the given data. 
Now we pick population means and ranges for Monday and Friday, then generate data from those, and finally calculate the sample statistics. Fortunately, around 50% of the time the confidence intervals overlap.
Still need to write advice, and proofread the question text.