UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. UNIVERSITEITSEKSAMENS Cd ee, UNISA lezen MAT2612 Mayidune 2016 INTRODUCTION TO DISCRETE MATHEMATICS. Duration 2 Hours 100 Marks EXAMINERS FIRST DR EF DOUNGMO GoUFO SECOND. PROF Y HARDY Closed book examination ‘This examination question paper remains the property of the University of South Africa and may not be removed from the examination venue This examination question paper consists of § pages ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS ‘Since calculators are not allowed, you may leave your answer as an exprassion involving permutations and combina: tons where necessaryMAr2612 May/June 2016 QUESTION 1 Use mathematical mauction to show that -2-P- =e erat for all integers p > 0 CT QUESTION 2 (2.1) Suppose there are 9 different bottles of water and 9 different bottles of yue (a) tn how many ways can you aerange the bottles in a row? 2) (b) In how many ways ean you arrange the bottles an a row if the hoteles of water and bottles of yuice (3) rmust alternate? (22) A binary muinber consists only of the digts 0 and 1 (a) How many diferent nine-digit binary numbers are there? oy) (6) ow many diferont nme-git binary numbers aro there which contam exactly four Jo? “ (©) Vow many decent nme-digitbanary sumsbers are there which contain exactly four 1s wich are (2) all adjacent (next to each other)? (23) (a) How many distinguishable arrangements ace there of the letters in the word AGGREG: ATE" (2) (b) How many of the distinguishable arrangements in (2.3)-(a) have the three Gs adjacent (next to (3) each other)! (2.4) In how many ways can you select 18 cookdiinks from 6 types of cooldeinks sf there are at least 18 of (4) ‘each type except Lype L of which there i only one? (2.5) ‘There are 70 students in a class. 40 wonew and 40 men In how many ways can you choose 20 of them (3) :f you must choose at least one woman? (24) QUESTION 3 Lot n be an uiteger such that 2 $ What us the probabubty that « random string of length n over the alphabet {4 e,f,a) will contam exactly three “P's? 15] [TURN OVER|3 MAT2612 May/June 2016 QUESTION 4 Let A= {1,2,3,4,5,6} and 2 be the relation an A whose matin 1s 101010 o1ro1roi ee) er OFT HO LeLH Me=}o 10101 1o1010 o10101 (4.1) Use Ma to expla why #15 an equivalence relation @) (42) Compute A/m? ® (48) Draw the dirveted graph of (A R) @ \s) QUESTION 5 ‘A hugh school has yust released the marks of all ts grace 7 pupils after a global mathematics test, which counted ‘out of 40 ‘There is a tal of 95 grade T puphis n the schoo! and no one got a mauk less than 10. Use the pigeonhole principle to show that at least 4 pupils got the saime mark (6) QUESTION 6 Let A= (235,68) ‘and define the relation Bom A by ab if and only i the smallest dvisor ofa 1s smaller thon the smallest divisor of & exeluding 1 as divisor (For example, GAS since 2 the smallest divisor of 6 while 5 the smallest divisor of 5) (61) Sketch the digraph of R @ (62) Give the domain and range of 2 @ (63) Determine Alp ) (64) Decide giving reasons, whether the relation Fas (a) reflexve ® (b) symmnetne ® (2 asymmetric ® (4) antieymmetne ® (e)_ transitive ® YOU MAY USE TIE DEFINTLION OF R AND/OR Mfg TO ANSWER CHE QUESTION fag} [TURN OVER]