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How many permutations $\left(a_1,a_2,\dots,a_n \right)$ of $\left(1,2,\dots,n \right)$ such that...
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How many permutations $\left(a_1,a_2,\dots,a_n \right)$ of $\left(1,2,\dots,n \right)$ such that $$\left|a_{i+1} - a_i \right| \le 2, \ \forall i=1,2,\dots,n-1.$$
At first I thought this might ...
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Probability for finding product?
A number is chosen randomly from the first billion natural numbers.
What is the probability that the product of the number with its two immediate successors is divisible by 24 ?
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Linear extension of a divisors set
For a number $N$, let $S_N$ be its set of divisors, and let $C(N)$ be the number of arrangements of $S_N$ in which every divisor itself appears after all of its divisors.
$C(12)=5$, because of the ...
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Each row of an n x n table form an arithmetic progression. Find n such that table can be transformed so that each column form arithmetic series
We place $ 1,\ldots,n^2$ integer numbers into an $n \times n$ table. We call this table good if each row can be permuted to form an arithmetic progression. For what value of $n$ can we transform (by ...
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Consider the increasing list of positive integers that do not contain the digit zero, 1, 2, 3... 9, 11, 12,.... The 2022nd number in this sequence is
Consider the increasing list of positive integers that do not contain the digit zero, $1, 2, 3, \ldots, 9, 11, 12, \ldots$. The $2022$nd number in this sequence is
so the number of single-digit ...
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cards permutations
This Question is from HackerRank : Alice was given the $n$ integers from $1$ to $n$ . She wrote all possible permutations in increasing lexicographical order, and wrote each permutation in a new line. ...
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How many whole numbers between $100$ and $800$ contain the digit $2$?
I had a very strange doubt in this question while I was solving it. Now in order to solve first I calculated the three digit numbers which won't have $2$ at all in them and the number of such three ...
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Closed form solution of this Vandermonde-like Identity
Can a closed form solution for the following expression be obtained? ($\alpha, n, m$ are constants)
$$
\sum_{i=0}^k\alpha^i \binom{n}{i}\binom{m}{k-i}
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I know that $\binom{n+m}{k} = \sum_{i=0}^k\...
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Asif , Aniqa and Saki are perplexed with grid and numbers
Asif has filled in a 3×3 grid with the numbers 1,2, . . . ,9. Saki writes down the three numbers obtained by multiplying the numbers in each horizontal row. Aniqa writes down the three numbers ...
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Combinatorics, counting and number theory.
Find number of ordered quadruples (a,b,c,d) [of positive integers] such that $lcm[a,b,c]= lcm[a,b,d]= lcm[a,c,d]= lcm[b,c,d] = 2^r\cdot3^s$
So i approached it like two of a,b,c,d has max power of 2 = ...
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How do you prove mathematically this four card trick?
Shuffle a deck of 4 cards. Ask the participant to remember the bottom card. Move top card to bottom. Flip the first card. Cut (not shuffle) the 4 cards in any way (or not at all). Do a two card flip/...
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Find The sum of all number in $\mathrm{S}$ is?
Let $S$ be the set of all 3 - digits numbers. Such that
(i) The digits in each number are all from the set $\{1,2,3, \ldots ., 9\}$
(ii) Exactly one digit in each number is even
The sum of all number ...
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Number of ways to colour number line.
I thought of this question:
Consider you have a number line that starts at $0$ and ends at $n$ where $n>0$. Consider there are $k$ number of points on this number line which are said to be lucky,...
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Does there exists such quadruple's of positive integers? [closed]
Problem: Let $S=\{1,2,...,8\}$ be the set consisting first eight positive integer from which each integer present can be taken twice not more than that. Select a quadruple $(a,b,c,d)$ from $S$, where $...
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Question on finding sum of all numbers formed by given numbers where zero is also included.
Find the sum of all the odd numbers of five-digit that can be made using the digits $0,1,4,5,4.$
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