Concordia University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering COEN231, Introduction to Discrete Mathematics

November 27, 2011 Assignment 5 Due Monday December 5 1. Consider bit strings of length 12. (a) How many begin with 110? (b) How many begin with 11 and end with 10? (c) How many begin with 11 or end with 10? 2. (a) A bowl contains 10 red balls and 10 blue balls. A woman selects balls at random without looking at them. How many balls must she select to be sure of having at least three balls of the same color? (b) How many license plates can be made using either three letters followed by three digits or four letters followed by two digits? (c) How many dierent strings can be made from the letters in M ISSISSIP P I, using all the letters. (d) How many bit strings of length seven either begin with two 0s or end with three 1s? 3. (a) What is the coecient of x8 y 9 in the expansion of (3x + 2y)17 ? (b) What is the coecient of x101 y 99 in the expansion of (2x 3y)200 ? 4. (a) In how many ways can forty identical (indistinguishable) objects be distributed in four distinguishable boxes, if no constraints are placed on the number of objects that can be put in a box? (b) In how many ways can forty dierent (distinguishable) objects be distributed in four distinguishable boxes, if exactly ten objects must be placed in each box? 5. (a) Prove the following:
2n 2

=2

n 2

+ n2
n

(b) Prove the following identity: n k = 2n

k=1

(c) Use mathematical induction and Pascals identity to prove n n n n + + (1)k 0 1 2 k (d) Use the previous to prove n n n + + + = 2n1 0 2 4 and n n n + + + = 2n1 1 3 5 1 = (1)k n1 k