1. Five cards are chosen from a random a standard deck of
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document.write( "playing cards. In how many ways can the cards be chosen
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document.write( "under each of the following condition.
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document.write( "a.) all are hearts.
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document.write( "13 hearts, CHOOSE 5\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: 13C5 =
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document.write( "[5 factors in the numerator, coming down from 15, 5 factors in the\r\n" );
document.write( "denominator, coming up from 1.] \r\n" );
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document.write( "b.) Exactly three kings
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document.write( "Here we have two things to choose, 3 kings and 2 non-kings.\r\n" );
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document.write( "First we find the number of ways to choose 3 kings.\r\n" );
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document.write( "4 kings, choose 3. 4C3 =
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document.write( "Next we find the number of ways to choose 2 non-kings.\r\n" );
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document.write( "48 non-kings, choose 2 = 48C2 =
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document.write( "Now for each of the 4 ways to choose the 3 kings, there\r\n" );
document.write( "are 1128 ways to choose the 2 non-kings, so we multiply\r\n" );
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document.write( "4*1128 = 4512\r\n" );
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document.write( "Use mathematical induction to prove 2+2+8+..+2^n= 2(2^n -1)
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document.write( "We are to prove P(n) which is\r\n" );
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document.write( "First let's see what P(k+1) would be: [That's always the first \r\n" );
document.write( "thing to do. Before you start an induction proof, you should \r\n" );
document.write( "calculate P(k+1) to see where you're headed]: \r\n" );
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document.write( "To do that, replace n by k+1 in
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document.write( "is, for that is what we are going for, and if we have that \r\n" );
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document.write( "finished. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Substituting k+1 for n in
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document.write( "know we have arrived if and when we get
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document.write( "P(1): substitute n=1,
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document.write( "first term is 2. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Assume P(k):
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document.write( "and now we see that we get the same P(k+1) as the one that we found \r\n" );
document.write( "in the beginning that we were going for. So the proof is finished. \r\n" );
document.write( "So since P(1) is true, P(1) proves P(2), P(2) proves P(3), P(3)\r\n" );
document.write( "proves P(4), etc., etc., ad infinitum. \r\n" );
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