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Unless otherwise indicated, all assigned problems are from the course text.

1. E1.2
2. E1.3
3. E1.4
4. E1.5
5. E1.6
6. E1.8
7. E1.9

For E1.3, B., is the intent of the question to pick any arbitrary value of alpha on the interval (0,1) and then just solve for N_min from there?

dtyszka wrote:For E1.3, B., is the intent of the question to pick any arbitrary value of alpha on the interval (0,1) and then just solve for N_min from there?

I haven't fully worked it out yet, but I presume that in order to get 2500 \pm 50, you can't arbitrarily pick alpha and then find N. It probably depends upon both.

I don't know if you can algebraically determine the solution or just compute the gain and variance and then iterate on alpha and/or N.