diff --git a/manuscript/04_expectations.md b/manuscript/04_expectations.md
index 9a38f4d..bc61463 100644
--- a/manuscript/04_expectations.md
+++ b/manuscript/04_expectations.md
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ concentrated its density / mass function is around the population mean.
 1. A standard die takes the values 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 with equal probability. What is the expected value?
 2. Consider a density that is uniform from -1 to 1. (I.e. has height equal to 1/2 and looks like a box starting at -1 and ending at 1). What is the mean of this distribution?
 3. If a population has mean {$$}\mu{/$$}, what is the mean of the distribution of averages of 20 observations from this distribution?
-4. You are playing a game with a friend where you flip a coin and if it comes up heads you give her  {$$}X{/$$} dollars and if it comes up tails she gives you $Y$ dollars. The odds that the coin is heads is {$$}d{/$$}. What is your expected earnings? [Watch a video of the solution to this problem](http://youtu.be/5J88Zq0q81o?list=PLpl-gQkQivXhHOcVeU3bSJg78zaDYbP9L) and [look at the problem and the solution here.](http://bcaffo.github.io/courses/06_StatisticalInference/homework/hw1.html#5).
+4. You are playing a game with a friend where you flip a coin and if it comes up heads you give her  {$$}X{/$$} dollars and if it comes up tails she gives you {$$}Y{/$$} dollars. The odds that the coin is heads is {$$}d{/$$}. What is your expected earnings? [Watch a video of the solution to this problem](http://youtu.be/5J88Zq0q81o?list=PLpl-gQkQivXhHOcVeU3bSJg78zaDYbP9L) and [look at the problem and the solution here.](http://bcaffo.github.io/courses/06_StatisticalInference/homework/hw1.html#5).
 5. If you roll ten standard dice, take their average, then repeat this process over and over and construct a histogram what would it be centered at?
 [Watch a video solution here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia3n2URiJaw&index=16&list=PLpl-gQkQivXhHOcVeU3bSJg78zaDYbP9L)
 and [see the original problem here](http://bcaffo.github.io/courses/06_StatisticalInference/homework/hw2.html#11).
diff --git a/manuscript/05_variation.md b/manuscript/05_variation.md
index 6ef8ca8..3dd105c 100644
--- a/manuscript/05_variation.md
+++ b/manuscript/05_variation.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ The sample variance is (almost) the average squared deviation
 of observations around the sample mean. It is given by
 
 {$$}
-S^2 = \frac{\sum_{i=1} (X_i - \bar X)^2}{n-1}
+S^2 = \frac{\sum_{i=1}^{n} (X_i - \bar X)^2}{n-1}
 {/$$}
 
 The sample standard deviation is the square root of the sample variance.
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ even though we only get one to look at in a given data set.
   - The population variance.
   - The population mean.
 3. I keep drawing samples of size {$$}n{/$$} from a population with variance {$$}\sigma^2{/$$} and taking their average. I do this thousands of times. If I were to take the variance of the collection of averages, about what would it be?
-4. You get a random sample of {$$}n{/$$} observations from a population and take their average. You would like to estimate the variability of averages of $$n$$ observations from this population to better understand how precise of an estimate it is. Do you need to repeated collect averages to do this?
+4. You get a random sample of {$$}n{/$$} observations from a population and take their average. You would like to estimate the variability of averages of {$$}n{/$$} observations from this population to better understand how precise of an estimate it is. Do you need to repeated collect averages to do this?
   - No, we can multiply our estimate of the population variance by {$$}1/n{/$$} to get a good estimate of the variability of the average.
   - Yes, you have to get repeat averages.
 5. A random variable takes the value -4 with probability .2 and 1 with probability .8. What
diff --git a/manuscript/06_common.md b/manuscript/06_common.md
index d8d3e58..b91771a 100644
--- a/manuscript/06_common.md
+++ b/manuscript/06_common.md
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ and 3 standard deviations above and below {$$}\mu{/$$}, the population mean.
 
 The most relevant probabilities are.
 
-1. Approximately 68\%, 95\% and 99\%  of the normal density lies within 1, 2 and 3 standard deviations from the mean, respectively.
+1. Approximately 68%, 95% and 99%  of the normal density lies within 1, 2 and 3 standard deviations from the mean, respectively.
 2. -1.28, -1.645, -1.96 and -2.33 are the {$$}10^{th}{/$$}, {$$}5^{th}{/$$},
 {$$}2.5^{th}{/$$} and {$$}1^{st}{/$$} percentiles of the standard normal
 distribution, respectively.
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ is the appropriate standard normal quantile.
 
 To put some context on our previous setting, population
 mean BMI for men [is reported as](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23675464)
-29 {$$}kg/mg^2{/$$} with a
+29 {$$}kg/m^2{/$$} with a
 standard deviation of 4.73. Assuming normality of BMI, what is the population
 {$$}95^{th}{/$$} percentile? The answer is then:
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ standard deviation of 4.73. Assuming normality of BMI, what is the population
 29 + 4.73 \times 1.645 = 36.78.
 {/$$}
 
-Or alternatively, we could simply type `r qnorm(.95, 29, 4.73)` in R.
+Or alternatively, we could simply type `qnorm(.95, 29, 4.73)` in R.
 
 Now let's reverse the process. Imaging asking what's the probability that
 a randomly drawn subject from this population has a BMI less than 24.27?
@@ -218,8 +218,8 @@ standard normal quantiles that the probability of being larger
 than 2 standard deviation is 2.5% and 3 standard deviations is far in the tail.
 Therefore, we know that the probability has to be smaller than 2.5% and should
 be very small. We can obtain it
-exactly as `r pnorm(1160, 1020, 50, lower.tail = FALSE)` which is 0.3%. Note
-that we can also obtain the probability as `r pnorm(2.8, lower.tail = FALSE)`.
+exactly as `pnorm(1160, 1020, 50, lower.tail = FALSE)` which is 0.3%. Note
+that we can also obtain the probability as `pnorm(2.8, lower.tail = FALSE)`.
 
 ### Example
 Consider the previous example again. What number of daily ad clicks