Fall 23
Fall 23
Fall 23
Answer all the 5 questions. Numbers to the right of the questions denote their marks.
Any examinee found adopting unfair means will be expelled from
the trimester / program as per UIU disciplinary rules.
1. Prove the following using mathematical induction, whenever n is a non-negative integer. [4]
3 · (5n+1 − 1)
3 + 3 · 5 + 3 · 52 + · · · + 3 · 5n =
4
2. (a) Seven (7) women and nine (9) men are on the faculty in the Mathematics department at a school. How
many ways are there to select a committee of six (6) members of the department if at least two (2) women
and at least one (1) man must be on the committee? [3]
(b) How many 4-digit numbers are possible that are divisible by 3 can be formed using the digits 3, 5, 6, 1
and 7 such that no digit is repeated? (Hint: A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by
3.) [4]
(c) How many cards must be chosen from a standard deck of 52 cards to guarantee that there are at least two
(2) cards of each of two (2) different suits? (Note: There are a total of 4 suits of cards) [2]
3. (a) What type of directed graph is the one given in Figure 1? If you change the directed graph in Figure 1 to
an undirected graph, what kind of undirected graph would it be? Would there be any difference between the
undirected graph from Figure 1 and the graph in Figure 2? State your reasoning. [3]
(b) Find the in-degree and out-degree for each of the vertices of the graph provided in Figure 1. Thus, show
whether the Handshaking theorem is preserved in the graph of Figure 1 or not. [3]
(c) Find out if the graph in Figure 2 is bipartite or not, using two coloring algorithms. If bipartite, show the
graph in bipartite form. [3]
4. (a) Given below is the adjacency matrix of a graph. Draw the graph. [3]
a b c d e f
a 0 1 0 0 0 0
b 1 0 1 1 0 0
c 0 0 1 0 0 0
d 1 0 1 0 0 0
e 0 0 0 0 0 1
f 0 0 0 0 0 0
(b) Is the graph in Figure 3 strongly connected? If not, find out strongly connected components of this graph.[3]
(c) Determine whether the graphs in Figure 4 are isomorphic or not. [3]
5. (a) Consider vertex “a” as the root of the tree in Figure 5 and answer the following questions. [1 + 1 = 2]
(a) (b)