By writing Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss won a $50 bet with his publisher because...

 

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By writing Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss won a $50 bet with his publisher because he used only 50 distinct English words in the entire book of 778 words. The probabilities of occurrence of the most common words in the book are given in the table below, in decreasing order: Word Probability of occurrence of word in book 10.7% 9.1% 7.8% 7.6% 5.7% 5.1% 4.6% you 4.4% 9--50 all other words 45.0% Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 not I them a like in do A. I pick a secret word from the book. The Bofa tells you that the secret word is one of the 8 most common words in the book. Yertle tells you it is not the word not. The Zlock tells you it is three letters long. How many bits of information about the secret word have you learned from: 1. The Bofa alone? 2. Yertle alone? 3. The Bofa and the Zlock together? 4. All of them together? Express your answers in log2 (100 / x) form, for suitable values of x in each case. By writing Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss won a $50 bet with his publisher because he used only 50 distinct English words in the entire book of 778 words. The probabilities of occurrence of the most common words in the book are given in the table below, in decreasing order: Word Probability of occurrence of word in book 10.7% 9.1% 7.8% 7.6% 5.7% 5.1% 4.6% you 4.4% 9--50 all other words 45.0% Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 not I them a like in do A. I pick a secret word from the book. The Bofa tells you that the secret word is one of the 8 most common words in the book. Yertle tells you it is not the word not. The Zlock tells you it is three letters long. How many bits of information about the secret word have you learned from: 1. The Bofa alone? 2. Yertle alone? 3. The Bofa and the Zlock together? 4. All of them together? Express your answers in log2 (100 / x) form, for suitable values of x in each case.

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1 The Bofa alone log2100 8 332 2 Yertle alone log2100 45 1... View the full answer