The original meaning of tory was "brigand", from Gaelic tòrachd "pursuing with hostile intent". It was used as a term to describe landless Irishmen who fought a guerrilla war against the English in Ireland in the 17th century. It then became a term of abuse to describe Irish Catholic supporters of King James II and finally it began to be used as a term to describe politicians who had opposed the removal of James and his replacement by a Protestant monarch. http://www.onestopenglish.com/News/Magazine/Vocab/storyword3.htm
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In this quiz, I feature probability problems that I have related to real-life situations to make the questions applicable to daily life. Both finite and continuous distributions are reviewed. Some integration is needed for computing continuous examples.
This is a double M quiz, all answers contain at least two words that begin with the letter M. Hopefully at the end of the questions you might just be heard to say "mmm"
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