Review And Analyze Multiple Questions On Permutations And Pr

Review and Analyze Multiple Questions on Permutations, Probabilities, and Algorithms

I have attached the file where there are questions attached. There are a total of 20 questions. And I need these answers by 8/27/2016. Thank you. Here are some sample questions: 1. How many ways are there to rearrange the letters in FUNCTION? 2. How many ways are there to rearrange the letters in INANENESS? 3. Refer to Example 4.40. An urn contains nine red balls, nine white balls, and nine blue balls, and a sample of four balls is drawn at random without replacement. Compute the probability that all of the balls in the sample are the same color. (Round your answer to four decimal places.) 4. In a suitable font, the letters A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, Y are all mirror images of themselves. A string made from these letters will be a mirror image of itself if it reads the same backward as forward: for example, MOM, YUMMUY, MOTHTOM. If a four-letter string in these letters is chosen at random, what is the probability that this string is a mirror image of itself? (Round your answer to four decimal places.) 5. An urn contains six red balls, five white balls, and four black balls. Three balls are drawn from the urn at random without replacement. For each red ball drawn, you win $4 , and for each black ball drawn, you lose $6 . Let X represent your net winnings. Compute E ( X ), your expected net winnings. E ( X ) = 6. Write a recursive function in pseudocode that computes the value of the following recurrence relation: H ( n ) = 1 if n = 1 H ( n − 1) + 6 n − 6 if n > 1. Give descriptive preconditions and postconditions. precondition n [removed] postcondition H ( n ) = 6. Consider the following pseudocode function. function W ( n Z ) if n > 0 then if n is odd then return 2 n else return n + 1 else return n − 1 Compute the values returned by the following function calls. (a) W ( 12 ) = [removed] (b) W (− 19 ) = [removed] (c) W ( 7 ) = [removed]

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Starting with basic combinatorial problems, the questions encompass permutation calculations, probability problems involving urns, and expected value computations related to drawing balls from an urn. They also involve recursive function design and understanding of pseudocode algorithms, which are essential in computer science.

Permutation Problems: Rearrangement of Letters

Understanding the number of ways to permute letters in words such as FUNCTION and INANENESS is fundamental in combinatorics. For FUNCTION, which has 8 unique letters, the total number of arrangements is calculated by 8! (factorial of 8). Since there are no repeated letters, the total permutations are 8! = 40,320. For INANENESS, which contains 9 letters with repetitions of the letter N (3 times) and E (2 times), the total permutations are calculated by dividing 9! by the factorial of repeated letters: 9! / (3! 2!) = 362,880 / (6 2) = 30,240. These calculations help understand how repetitions affect the total arrangements.

Probability with Urns and Drawing Balls

The problem involving an urn with 9 red, 9 white, and 9 blue balls, from which 4 are drawn without replacement, deals with hypergeometric probability. The probability that all four drawn balls are of the same color involves calculating the probability of drawing 4 red, or 4 white, or 4 blue balls, and summing these probabilities:

• Probability all 4 are red: (C(9,4)) / (C(27,4))
• Similarly for white and blue. Because these probabilities are symmetrical, the calculation simplifies to 3 * (C(9,4) / C(27,4)).

Using combinations, C(n,k) = n! / (k! * (n-k)!), and calculating the probabilities yields the combined probability, which is then rounded to four decimal places.

Probability of Palindromic Strings

For the string made up of the letters A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X, Y, which are all palindromic and mirror-image symmetric, the problem finds the probability that a randomly selected 4-letter string is a palindrome. Since the string must read the same forward and backward, the first two characters determine the last two: the second character must mirror the first, and the third must mirror the fourth. The total number of such palindromic strings is therefore the number of choices for the first two characters, which is 11 (since all 11 letters are symmetric). For a 4-letter string: total possible strings are 11^4 = 14641, and the number of palindromic strings is 11 * 11 = 121. The probability is then 121 / 14641 ≈ 0.0083, rounded to four decimal places.

Expected Winnings from Drawing Balls

Calculating the expected value E(X) involves considering all possible outcomes where balls are drawn without replacement. Each outcome's probability is determined using hypergeometric distribution: the probability of drawing red, white, and black balls, multiplied by the respective payoffs. Since only red and black balls contribute to winnings (white balls do not affect the payout), the expected winnings incorporate the sum over red and black ball draws, weighted by their probabilities. The expected value calculation yields a negative or positive net payout, depending on the probabilities of drawing black vs. red balls, multiplied by their respective payoffs.

Recursive Functions and Pseudocode Analysis

The problem involves writing a recursive function to compute a recurrence relation:

H(n) = { 1, if n=1
{ H(n-1) + 6n - 6, if n >1

with preconditions and postconditions detailed as: the precondition is that n is a positive integer, and the postcondition is that H(n) returns the correct value as per the recurrence relation, correctly computed based on recursive calls. The recursive function calls itself with n-1 until reaching the base case n=1, then accumulates the sum of 6n-6 for each n.

Similarly, the pseudocode function W(n) processes an input integer n by checking whether n is positive and odd or even and returns different values accordingly. When provided with specific inputs such as 12, -19, and 7, the function's logic yields the outputs based on the conditions, for example: W(12) returns 13, W(−19) returns −20, and W(7) returns 15.

Conclusion

In essence, these questions cover foundational topics across combinatorics and computer science: permutations, probabilities, expected values, recursive functions, and pseudocode analysis. Mastery of these concepts provides a vital bridge between theoretical mathematics and practical algorithm design, essential for computer science students and mathematicians alike.

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