Questions on discrete mathematics generally: "the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous"

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Please help me verify the following set equation from The Essence of Discrete Mathematics by Neville Dean

LaTeX markup suggested format: $\{y\in N_1 | y\le 4 \land (\exists x\in Z| x< 4 \land 6=yx\}$ Author's original post: {y:∈ N1 | y ≤ 4 Ʌ (∃x:∈Z | x < 4 . 6=y*x)} The first part of the equation ...
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Predicates and proposition.

Specify two predicates $P(x)$ and $Q(x)$ over the universe of positive integers such that the proposition $\exists x(P(x) \wedge Q(x))$ is false while the proposition $(\exists x(P(x))) \wedge ...
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Combinatorics - pigeonhole principle question

This is for self-study. This question is from Rosen's "Discrete Mathematics And Its Applications", 6th edition. An arm wrestler is the champion for a period of 75 hours. (Here, by an hour, we mean a ...
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Sylvester's Theorem and Schur Theorem

I'll probably end up asking more programming questions on StackExchange forums than math questions, but I'll lead off with a math question. In my Number Theory class this past semester, I worked on a ...
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Binomial distributions

If I'm tossing 4 pennies at once, and then recording how many heads there came out to be 32 times, is that a Binomial experiment?
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Opposite of a logical expression

What is the opposite of this expression? $p \land ( q \lor r )$ Please suggest any theorem as a starting point.
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Subsets with equal sums

I have a problem to solve but I am in need of your help. Subjects with equal sums: Prove that for every set $A$ which consists of $10$ double digit natural numbers( numbers among $10, \ldots, 99$), ...
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Every $t$-coloring of $K_{2t+1}$ contains a monochromatic cycle

I need help in the following question: I need to prove that in all possible coloring with $t$ colors of the complete graph $K$ with $2t+1$ vertices, there will always be a monochromatic cycle (its ...
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Does this generalisation of Latin squares have a name?

I am interested in looking at $n\times n$ tableaux (or matrices) in which (WLOG) each integer in $\{ 1, 2, \ldots, n \}$ occurs exactly $n$ times. This is a generalisation of a Latin (or even ...
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Counting the number of directed graphs with $N$ vertices and $E$ edges?

Does any body who has good back ground in graph theory tells me that how many possible directed graphs will be there with $N$ vertices and $E$ edges. I need all the possible combinations even even ...
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Pigeonhole principle to prove division

Here's a little question that we were shown in class: Let $S = \{1,2,\ldots,200\}$ and let $A \subseteq S$ such that $|A| = 101$. Prove that there are two elements of $A$ such that one is a ...
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How many fours are needed to represent numbers up to $N$?

The goal of the four fours puzzle is to represent each natural number using four copies of the digit $4$ and common mathematical symbols. For example, $165=(\sqrt{4} + \sqrt{\sqrt{{\sqrt{4^{4!}}}}}) ...
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Formula for sub and super sequence length given 2 strings

I have done a coding exercise where the problem was to compute the maximal length of a common substring given two strings. Consider strings as finite sequences with elements in the English alphabet ...
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Bijective proof? Examples?

I'm having trouble with understanding bijective proofs. I searched a lot, but I could not find a simple and well-explained resource. Can you give a simple example of a bijective proof with ...
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Is there a discrete version of de l'Hôpital's rule?

When considering asymptotics of runtime functions, you often have to find limits of quotients of discrete functions, e.g. $\displaystyle\qquad \lim\limits_{n \to \infty} ...
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Some three consecutive numbers sum to at least $32$

Here's a question we got for homework: We write down all the numbers from $1$ to $20$ in a circle. Prove that there is a sequence of $3$ numbers whose sum is at least $32$. I assume we need the ...
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to find number of divisor of $p^m$ times $q^n$ when $p$ and $q$ are primes

Am taking a intro discrete math course..it covers some number theory content Euclidean algorithm,modular arithmetic, Euler's phi function, that's all How can I solve a question like this: If $p$ and ...
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Euclid algorithm greatest common divisor

In Knuth's book "The Art Of Computer Programming Vol.1" there is a description about Euclid's algorithm to find the greatest common divisor of m and n. And there is a phrase. $m = qn+r$. If $r = ...
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What is the expression for putting $n$ indistinguishable balls into $k$ indistinguishable cells?

I'm looking for the expressions for the number of ways in which $n$ indistinguishable balls can be placed into $k$ indistinguishable cells, with No cell being empty Some cells being empty I knew ...
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How to solve the following combinatorics problem?

There are $C$ kinds of colored balls, with $f_i$ being the frequency of each color $c_i$, such that $\Sigma_{i=1}^{C}f_i = n$, and $F= max(f_i)$. Let $G(x)$ be the number of ways in which these $n$ ...
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Coin Toss Probablities and Outcomes

I'm having a hard time with this question, but I did the best that I could. I would appreciate any help to correctly solve it. Suppose that a coin is tossed three times and the side that ...
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Five people are to be seated around a circular table. How many seatings are possible? (Full Q inside)

I'm attempting this question, but I'm a little unsure about my answers. The full question is: Five people are to be seated around a circular table. Two seatings are considered the same if one is a ...
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How many solutions are there to the equation $x + y + z + w = 17$?

How many solutions are there to the equation $x + y + z + w = 17$? I don't know if I'm doing this right, but I guessed that the solution would be $\binom{20}{3}$, which equals $1140$. Am I doing ...
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Question about the Pigeonhole Principle

The question is: Let $A = \{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8\}$. If five integers are selected from $A$, must at least one pair of the integers have a sum of $9$? The book explains the solution by dividing the ...
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Probablity: 2 Urns

I'm trying to find the solution for this problem: There are 2 urns: urn 1 has 2 red balls and 1 blue ball and urn 2 has 1 red ball and 2 blue balls. You're supposed to randomly select one urn ...
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points within discrete subgroups of the plane isometry group

So... last question that I have to do this semester... and of course it's one that I am completely wedged on. I am supposed to show that for any discrete subgroup $G$ of the isometry group in the ...
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“Down-Closed”, “Down Ideal”, Something Else?

Let $X$ be an a set and let $\mathcal{C}$ be a collection of subsets of $X$ satisfying the following property: If $A$ and $A^\prime$ are subsets of $X$ with $A \in \mathcal{C}$ and $A^\prime ...
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Number of non-isomorphic regular graphs with degree of 4 and 7 vertices?

I'm faced with a problem in my course where I have to calculate the total number of non-isomorphic graphs. The graph is regular with an degree 4 (meaning each vertice has four edges) and has exact 7 ...
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Is this a proper use of induction? ($(n^2+5)n$ is divisible by 6)

Just want to get input on my use of induction in this problem: Question. Use mathematical induction to prove that $(n^2+5)n$ is divisible by $6$ for all integers $n \geqslant 1$. Proof by ...
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How to solve this problem about discrete mathematics (Probability) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Number of ways of spelling Abracadabra in this grid Determine the number of ways of spelling “mathematics” in the array below by following a path from top to bottom in ...
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crossing number question

Prove that there exists constant k such that, for all $5v < e$ there is a subgraph of the complete graph of $v$ vertics with crossing number less or equal than $ k e^3/v^2$. Any hints for a way to ...
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Positive integers less than 1000 without repeated digits

How many integers from 1-999 do not have any repeated digits? The answer is explained in this link, but why is the last set 9*9*8? Why not 9*9*9?
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Discrete Structures: Bit Strings

So my professor gave us an HW assignment which includes this question: "How many bit strings consist of 1 through 5 bits. (Note 10 and 00010 are considered distinct even though they are both ...
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Number of ways to put $n$ unlabeled balls in $k$ bins with a max of $m$ balls in each bin

The number of ways to put $n$ unlabeled balls in $k$ distinct bins is $$\binom{n+k-1}{k-1} .$$ Which makes sense to me, but what I can't figure out is how to modify this formula if each bucket has a ...
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What will be the mathematical formula to fetch the position of a letter from this string?

The above full string is a combined form of two different strings named string-1 and string-2. Both strings has equal length of 32 characters. There is two other parameters interval and size. ...
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Using induction to find a general pattern of $x,y$

Let $m$ be an even natural number. Find natural numbers $x$ and $y$ such that $$ m=(x+y)^2+3x+y$$ Try a few cases to find pattern and then use induction to prove that the pattern works. P.S I saw ...
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Is $\{a,c,e,g\}$ an equivalence class?

If the set $\{a,b,c,d,e,f,g\}$ is is partitioned into these three partitions: $\{a, c, e, g\}$ $\{b, d\}$ $\{f\}$ and an equivalence relation is produced by these partitions, is $\{a,c,e,g\}$ an ...
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Expected value of the minimum of a random set of distances

You are given a rectangular $n_1\times n_2$ grid with one light bulb $b_i$ at every node. Each bulb is on or off with probability $p$ and $1-p$, respectively, and furthermore you know that exactly $m$ ...
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Expected value and Variance of a Random Variable

I understand Mean (Expected Value) and Variance of Random variables as outlined on this page. I can't seem to apply those concepts to this problem, however. Say there's a class of 50 people answering ...
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How many strings are there of $4$ or fewer lower case letters that have the letter '$x$' in them?

These problems always fumble me up. Just looking to see if my answer is correct. I found that: $4$ letters: $(26^3) \times 4$, $3$ letters: $(26^2) \times 3$, $2$ letters: $(26) \times 2$, $1$ ...
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Number of ways to represent a number as a sum of only $1$’s and $2$’s and $3$’s

How do I find the number of ways to represent a number as a sum of only $1$’s and $2$’s and $3$’s? I think the title is self-explanatory. E.g., if I have to represent $13$ as a sum of only ...
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Comparing the number of cuts and paths in graph

How would you prove that the number of cuts in a graph (where cut is a set of edges which split two vertices) cannot be smaller than the number of directed paths from one vertex to the other?
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Proof that the relation $5 \mid (a + 4b)$ is symmetric and transitive

Take the relation $R$ to be defined on the set of integers: $$aRb \iff 5 \mid (a + 4b)$$ As part of a larger proof, I have to show that $R$ is both symmetric and transitive. I'm lost. I see the ...
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Simple graphs (edges, nodes etc.)

Draw all possible graphs that can be constructed from the vertices $V_1=\{a,b,c\}$. Answer: Pic: I believe this is all of them (bottom three are all the same). How many such graphs have no edges? ...
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Proof about trees

Show that in any tree there exists a node such that, if we remove this node and the edges adjacent to it, we will obtain trees which have at most n/2 nodes (the removed node is not counted ...
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Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind

I am trying to understand the derivation of the Stirling Numbers from a difference table. From my book: Let $h_n = n^p$. The $0$-th diagonal of the difference table for $h_n$ has the form ...
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recursion need a closed form

Is there a closed formula to the problem $f(1)=1, f(2n)=f(n), f(2n+1)=f(2n)+1$. So far i have found a solution for $n$, which is the number of power of $2$'s needed to add up to the number starting ...
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Over an alphabet of $n$ symbols, how many are the strings of length $k$ without consecutive symbols repeated?

From combinatorics, it's known that over an alphabet of $n$ symbols there are $n^k$ different strings of length $k$, of which $\frac{n!}{(n-k)!}$ (assuming $k \le n$) are those without any repeated ...
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Sets / Bijection / Countablity

Can you please help me with this question? Is the set finite, countably infinite, or uncountable? a. The set of all real-valued random variables on a finite sample space. b. The set of ...
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Permutation and combination - Discrete Math

You have $15$ marbles and three jars labeled A, B, and C. How many ways can you put the marbles into the jars… (a) If each marble is different? (My answer C(15,3) ) (b) If each marble is the same? ...

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