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question 11.1.6 {Andy, Bill, Kathy, David, Evelyn}.

In how many ways can a secretary, president and treasurer be selected if the secretary must be female and the others male?

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Your Solution:AKB, AEB, BKA, BEA, DKA, DEA, DKB, DEB, AKD, AED, BKD, BED 12 WAYS

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Given Solution:: **

We can list the possibilities, or we can analyze the numbers.

First we list:

Using letters for the names, there are 12 possibilities (note that the secretary must be either k or e, the others chosen from a, b, d. The secretary, president and treasurer are listed in said order):

eab, ead, eba, ebd, eda, edb, kab, kad, kba, kbd, kda, kdb.

Next we analyze the numbers:

There are two women, so two possibilities for the first person selected.

The other two will be selected from among the three men, so there are 3 possibilities for the second person chosen, leaving 2 possibilities for the third.

The number of possibilities is therefore 2 * 3 * 2 = 12. **

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question 11.1.12 and 18.

In how many ways can the total of two dice equal 5?

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Your Solution:4 WAYS 1+4, 4+1, 2+3, 3+2

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Given Solution:: ** Listing possibilities on first then second die you can get 1,4, or 2,3 or 3,2 or 4,1. There are Four ways. **

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question: In how many ways can the total of two dice equal 11?

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Your Solution: 2 WAYS 5+6, 6+5

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Given Solution:: ** STUDENT SOLUTION AND INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE: There is only 1 way the two dice can equal 11 and that is if one lands on 5 and the other on 6

INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE: There's a first die and a second. You could imagine that they are painted different colors to distinguish them.

You can get 5 on the first and 6 on the second, or vice versa. So there are two ways. **

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question 11.1.36 5-pointed star, number of complete triangles

How many complete triangles are there in the star and how did you arrive at this number?

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Your Solution:5

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Given Solution:: ** If you look at the figure you see that it forms a pentagon in the middle (if you are standing at the very center you would be within this pentagon). Each side of the pentagon is the side of a unique triangle; the five triangles formed in this way are the 'spikes' of the star.

Each side of the pentagon is also part of a longer segment running from one point of the start to another. This longer segment is part of a larger triangle whose vertices are the two points of the star and the vertex of the pentagon which lies opposite this side of the pentagon.

There are no other triangles, so we have 5 + 5 = 10 triangles.

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question 11.1.40 4 x 4 grid of squares, how many squares in the figure?

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Your Solution:30

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Given Solution:: ** I count 16 small 1 x 1 squares, then 9 larger 2 x 2 squares (each would be made up of four of the small squares), 4 even larger 3 x 3 squares (each made up of nin small squares) and one 4 x 4 square (comprising the whole grid), for a total of 30 squares. Do you agree? **

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question 11.1.50 In how many ways can 30 be written as sum of two primes?

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Your Solution: 19+11, 23+7, 17+13, 3 WAYS

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Given Solution:: **STUDENT SOLTION AND INSTRUCTOR COMMENT:

There are 4 ways 30 can be written as the sum of two prime numbers:

· 30 = 29 + 1 (instructor note: this is not a sum of two primes)

· 30 = 19 + 11

· 30 = 23 + 7

· 30 = 17 + 13

INSTRUCTOR COMMENT: Good, but 1 isn't a prime number. It only has one divisor.

The rest of your answers are correct. All sums give you 30, and 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 and 23 are all prime numbers.**

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question 11.1.60 four adjacent switches; how many settings if no two adj can be off and no two adj can be on

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Your Solution:ON, OFF, ON, OFF AND OFF, ON, OFF, ON 2 SETS

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Given Solution:: ** There are a total of 16 settings but only two have the given property of alternating off and on.

If the first switch is off then the second is on so the third is off so the fourth is on.

If the first is off then the second is on and the third is off so the fourth is on.

So the two possibilities are off-on-off-on and on-off-on-off. If we use 0 to represent ‘off’ and 1 to represent ‘on’ these possibilities they are written 0101 and 1010. **

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question Add comments on any surprises or insights you experienced as a result of this assignment.

** STUDENT COMMENT: No surprises and it's early so i'm reaching for insight as a child reaches for a warm bottle of milk

Your comments or questions:

Some previous student comments and questions:

I would like the answers to all the problems I worked in Assignment 11.1. I was surprised that you only ask for a few. I could not answer 11.1. 63 - What is a Cartesain plane? I could not find it in the text.

INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE: The question you ask about the Cartesian Plane is a good one and I’ll be glad to answer below, but first let me address your request for answers to all questions.

I ask for selected answers so you can submit work quickly and efficiently. I don't provide answers to all questions, since the text provides answers to most of the odd-numbered questions. Between those answers and the comments provided here, most students get enough feedback to be confident in the rest of their work. Another reason I don’t provide answers to all questions is that want students to learn to work ‘forward’ through the problems, which won’t be the case if all answers are provided. If they were most students would fall into the habit of 'working backward' from the answer to the solution.

If you have a question on a specific text problem or on anything else, you should submit it using the Submit Question form from the General Information page http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/geninfo/. A direct link to the question form is http://vhcc2.vhcc.edu/dsmith/forms/question_form.htm .

To answer your question about the Cartesian Plane:

The Cartesian Plane can be thought of as a plane defined by an x axis and a y axis, on which you can specify points by their coordinates. For example the point (5, 9) can be found by starting at the origin (0, 0) and moving 5 units along the positive x axis, then moving 9 units in the direction parallel to the positive y axis.

The above is probably sufficient for the work you are doing at this point in your course. A more specific definition:

The x axis and the y axis are mutually perpendicular (i.e., at right angles with one another). The x axis is traditionally oriented in the horizontal direction, the y axis in the vertical direction, and is right-handed. The idea of right-handedness is defined in 3 dimensions, but if the x axis is directed ‘toward the right’ and the y axis is ‘up’, then the system will be right-handed. If the x axis was directed ‘toward the right’ and the y axis was ‘down’ the system would be left’-handed’. In a right-handed system, if the y axis is rotated 90 degrees in what we perceive as the ‘right-hand’ direction for rotation (the direction in which you turn a standard right-handed screw or bolt to tighten it), it will then coincide with the x-axis.

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