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**Exercise Set 5.1**
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Write the first four terms of the sequences defined by the formulas 1-6.
1. $a_k = \dfrac{k}{10 + k}$, for every integer $k \geq 1$.
2. $b_j = \dfrac{5 - j}{5 + j}$, for every integer $j \geq 1$.
3. $c_i = \dfrac{(-1)^i}{3^i}$, for every integer $i \geq 0$.
4. $d_m = 1 + \left(\dfrac{1}{2}\right)^m$ for every integer $m \geq 0$.
5. $e_n = \left\lfloor \dfrac{n}{4} \right\rfloor \cdot 2$, for every integer
$n \geq 0$.
6. $f_n = \left\lfloor \dfrac{n}{4} \right\rfloor \cdot 4$, for every integer
$n \geq 1$.
7. Let $a_k = 2k + 1$ and $b_k = (k - 1)^3 + k + 2$ for every integer
$k \geq 0$. Show that the first three terms of these sequences are identical
but that their fourth terms differ.
Compute the first fifteen terms of each of the sequences in 8 and 9, and
describe the general behavior of these sequences in words. (A definition of
logarithm is given in Section 7.1.)
8. $g_n = \lfloor \log_{2}n \rfloor$ for every integer $n \geq 1$.
9 $h_n = n\lfloor \log_{2}n \rfloor$ for every integer $n \geq 1$.
Find explicit formulas for sequences of the form $a_1, a_2, a_3, \dots$ with the
initial terms given in 10-16.
10. $-1, 1, -1, 1, -1, 1$
11. $0, 1, -2, 3, -4, 5$
12. $\dfrac{1}{4}, \dfrac{2}{9}, \dfrac{3}{16}, \dfrac{4}{25}, \dfrac{5}{36}, \dfrac{6}{49}$
13. $1 - \dfrac{1}{2}, \dfrac{1}{2} - \dfrac{1}{3}, \dfrac{1}{3} - \dfrac{1}{4}, \dfrac{1}{4} - \dfrac{1}{5}, \dfrac{1}{5} - \dfrac{1}{6}, \dfrac{1}{6} - \dfrac{1}{7}$
14. $\dfrac{1}{3}, \dfrac{4}{9}, \dfrac{9}{27}, \dfrac{16}{81}, \dfrac{25}{243}, \dfrac{36}{729}$
15. $0, -\dfrac{1}{2}, \dfrac{2}{3}, -\dfrac{3}{4}, \dfrac{4}{5}, -\dfrac{5}{6}, \dfrac{6}{7}$
16. $3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96$
17. Consider the sequence defined by $a_n = \dfrac{2n + (-1)^n - 1}{4}$ for
every integer $n \geq 0$. Find an alternative explicit formula for $a_n$
that uses the floor notation.
18. Let
$a_0 = 2, a_1 = 3, a_2 = -2, a_3 = 1, a_4 = 0, a_5 = -1, \text{ and } a_6 = -2$.
Compute each of the summations and products below.
a. $\sum_{i = 0}^{6}{a_i}$
b. $\sum_{i = 0}^{0}{a_i}$
c. $\sum_{j = 1}^{3}{a_{2j}}$
d. $\prod_{k = 0}^{6}{a_k}$
e. $\prod_{k = 2}^{2}{a_k}$
Compute the summations and products in 19-28.
19. $\sum_{k = 1}^{5}{(k + 1)}$
20. $\prod_{k = 2}^{4}{k^2}$
21. $\sum_{k = 1}^{3}{(k^2 + 1)}$
22. $\prod_{j = 0}^{4}{(-1)^j}$
23. $\sum_{i = 1}^{1}{i(i + 1)}$
24. $\sum_{j = 0}^{0}{(j + 2) \cdot 2^j}$
25. $\prod_{k = 2}^{2}{\left(1 - \dfrac{1}{k}\right)}$
26. $\sum_{k = -1}^{1}{(k^2 + 3)}$
27. $\sum_{n = 1}^{6}{\left(\dfrac{1}{n} - \dfrac{1}{n + 1}\right)}$
28. $\prod_{i = 2}^{5}{\dfrac{i(i + 2)}{(i - 1) \cdot (i + 1)}}$
Write the summations in 29-32 in expanded form.
29. $\sum_{i = 1}^{n}{(-2)^i}$
30. $\sum_{j = 1}^{n}{j(j + 1)}$
31. $\sum_{k = 0}^{n + 1}{\dfrac{1}{k!}}$
32. $\sum_{i = 1}^{k + 1}{i(i!)}$
Evaluate the summations and products in 33-36 for the indicated values of the
variable.
33. $\dfrac{1}{1^2} + \dfrac{1}{2^2} + \dfrac{1}{3^2} + \dots + \dfrac{1}{n^2}; n = 1$
34. $1(1!) + 2(2!) + 3(3!) + \dots + m(m!); m = 2$
35. $\left(\dfrac{1}{1 + 1}\right)\left(\dfrac{2}{2 + 1}\right)\left(\dfrac{3}{3 + 1}\right) \dots \left(\dfrac{k}{k + 1}\right); k = 3$
36. $\left(\dfrac{1 \cdot 2}{3 \cdot 4}\right)\left(\dfrac{4 \cdot 5}{6 \cdot 7}\right)\left(\dfrac{6 \cdot 7}{8 \cdot 9}\right) \dots \left(\dfrac{m \cdot (m + 1)}{(m + 2) \cdot (m + 3)}\right); m = 1$
Write each of 37-39 as a single summation.
37. $\sum_{i = 1}^{k}{i^3 + (k + 1)^3}$
38. $\sum_{k = 1}^{m}{\dfrac{k}{k + 1} + \dfrac{m + 1}{m + 2}}$
39. $\sum_{m = 0}^{n}{(m + 1)2^m + (n + 2)2^{n + 1}}$
Rewrite 40-42 by separating off the final term.
40. $\sum_{i = 1}^{k + 1}{i(i!)}$
41. $\sum_{k = 1}^{m + 1}{k^2}$
42. $\sum_{m = 1}^{n + 1}{m(m + 1)}$
Write each of 43-52 using summation or product notation.
43. $1^2 - 2^2 + 3^2 - 4^2 + 5^2 - 6^2 + 7^2$
44. $(1^3 - 1) - (2^3 - 1) + (3^3 - 1) - (4^3 - 1) + (5^3 - 1)$
45. $(2^2 - 1) \cdot (3^2 - 1) \cdot (4^2 - 1)$
46. $\dfrac{2}{3 \cdot 4} - \dfrac{3}{4 \cdot 5} + \dfrac{4}{5 \cdot 6} - \dfrac{5}{6 \cdot 7} + \dfrac{6}{7 \cdot 8}$
47. $1 - r + r^2 - r^3 + r^4 - r^5$
48. $(1 - t) \cdot (1 - t^2) \cdot (1 - t^3) \cdot (1 - t^4)$
49. $1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + \dots + n^3$
50. $\dfrac{1}{2!} + \dfrac{2}{3!} + \dfrac{3}{4!} + \dots + \dfrac{n}{(n + 1)!}$
51. $n + (n - 1) + (n - 2) + \dots + 1$
52. $n + \dfrac{n - 1}{2!} + \dfrac{n - 2}{3!} + \dfrac{n - 3}{4!} + \dots + \dfrac{1}{n!}$
Transform each of 53 and 54 by making the change of variable $i = k + 1$.
53. $\sum_{k = 0}^{5}{k(k - 1)}$
54. $\prod_{k = 1}^{n}{\dfrac{k}{k^2 + 4}}$
Transform each of 55-58 by making the change of variable $j = i - 1$.
55. $\sum_{i = 1}^{n + 1}{\dfrac{(i - 1)^2}{i \cdot n}}$
56. $\sum_{i = 3}^{n}{\dfrac{i}{i + n - 1}}$
57. $\sum_{i = 1}^{n - 1}{\dfrac{i}{(n - i)^2}}$
58. $\prod_{i = n}^{2n}{\dfrac{n - i + 1}{n + i}}$
Write each of 59-61 as a single summation or product.
59. $3 \cdot \sum_{k = 1}^{n}{(2k - 3)} + \sum_{k = 1}^{n}{(4 - 5k)}$
60. $2 \cdot \sum_{k = 1}^{n}{(3k^2 + 4)} + 5 \cdot \sum_{k = 1}^{n}{(2k^2 - 1)}$
61. $\left(\prod_{k = 1}^{n}{\dfrac{k}{k + 1}}\right) \cdot \left(\prod_{k = 1}^{n}{\dfrac{k + 1}{k + 2}}\right)$
Compute each of 62-76. Assume the values of the variables are restricted so that
the expressions are defined.
62. $\dfrac{4!}{3!}$
63. $\dfrac{6!}{8!}$
64. $\dfrac{4!}{0!}$
65. $\dfrac{n!}{(n - 1)!}$
66. $\dfrac{(n - 1)!}{(n + 1)!}$
67. $\dfrac{n!}{(n - 2)!}$
68. $\dfrac{((n + 1)!)^2}{(n!)^2}$
69. $\dfrac{n!}{(n - k)!}$
70. $\dfrac{n!}{(n - k + 1)!}$
71. $\dbinom{5}{3}$
72. $\dbinom{7}{4}$
73. $\dbinom{3}{0}$
74. $\dbinom{5}{5}$
75. $\dbinom{n}{n - 1}$
76. $\dbinom{n + 1}{n - 1}$
77.
a. Prove that $n! + 2$ is divisible by $2$, for every integer $n \geq 2$.
b. Prove that $n! + k$ is divisible by $k$, for every integer $n \geq 2$ and
$k = 2, 3, \dots, n$.
c. Given any integer $m \geq 2$, is it possible to find a sequence of $m - 1$
consecutive positive integers none of which is prime? Explain your answer.
78. Prove that for all nonnegative integers $n$ and $r$ with
$$ r + 1 \leq n, \binom{n}{r + 1} = \frac{n - r}{r + 1}\binom{n}{r} $$
79. Prove that if $p$ is a prime number and $r$ is an integer with $0 < r < p$,
then $\dbinom{p}{r}$ is divisible by $p$.
80. Suppose $a[1], a[2], a[3], \dots, a[m]$ is a one-dimensional array and
consider the following algorithm segment:
$\text{sum } := 0\\ \text{\textbf{for }} k := 1 \text{\textbf{ to }} m\\ \ \ \text{sum } := \text{ sum } + a[k]\\ \text{\textbf{next }} k$
Fill in the blanks below so that each algorithm segment performs the same job as
the one shown in the exercise statement.
a.
$\text{sum } := 0\\ \text{\textbf{for }} i := 0 \text{\textbf{ to \_\_\_\_}}\\ \ \ \text{sum } := \text{\_\_\_\_}\\ \text{\textbf{next }} i$
b.
$\text{sum } := 0\\ \text{\textbf{for }} j := 2 \text{\textbf{ to \_\_\_\_}}\\ \ \ \text{sum } := \text{\_\_\_\_}\\ \text{\textbf{next }} j$
Use repeated division by $2$ to convert (by hand) the integers in 81-83 from
base 10 to base 2.
81. $90$
82. $98$
83. $205$
Make a trace table to trace the action of Algorithm 5.1.1 on the input in 84-86.
84. $23$
85. $28$
86. $44$
87. Write an informal description of an algorithm (using repeated division
by 16) to convert a nonnegative integer from decimal notation to hexadecimal
notation (base 16).
Use the algorithm you developed for exercise 87 to convert the integers in 88-90
to hexadecimal notation.
88. $287$
89. $693$
90. $2,301$
91. Write a formal version of the algorithm you developed for exercise 87.