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This document contains 9 questions related to generating functions and recurrence relations: 1. Find coefficients of terms in generating functions. 2. Find simpler expressions for generating functions of specific sequences. 3. Determine the sequences corresponding to given generating functions. 4. Prove properties of generating functions and find a generating function for a specific sequence. 5. Determine recurrence relations for sequences defined by counting problems and patterns of 1's in binary sequences. 6. Solve given recurrence relations, avoiding complex number solutions. 7. Solve a recurrence relation using the method of generating functions. 8. Count the number of ways to assign identical robots to assembly lines with a minimum per line.

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This document contains 9 questions related to generating functions and recurrence relations: 1. Find coefficients of terms in generating functions. 2. Find simpler expressions for generating functions of specific sequences. 3. Determine the sequences corresponding to given generating functions. 4. Prove properties of generating functions and find a generating function for a specific sequence. 5. Determine recurrence relations for sequences defined by counting problems and patterns of 1's in binary sequences. 6. Solve given recurrence relations, avoiding complex number solutions. 7. Solve a recurrence relation using the method of generating functions. 8. Count the number of ways to assign identical robots to assembly lines with a minimum per line.

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1.

(a) Find the coefficient of x7 in (1 + x + x2 + x3 + )5 .


(b) Find the coefficient of x15 in (x3 5x)/(1 x)3 .

(5%)
(5%)

2. Find a simpler expression for the generating function of the following sequences: (10%)
(a) an = n + 1
(b) an = 2n + 3n
3. Determine the sequence corresponding to the following functions: (10%)
(a)
2 + 3x 6x2
f (x) =
1 2x
(b)
f (x) =

2
1 4x2

4.
(a) Let f (x) be the generating function for the sequence a0 , a1 , a2, a3 , .
Prove that

1
f (x)
1x

is the generating function for the sequence

a0 , a0 + a1 , a0 + a1 + a2 , a0 + a1 + a2 + a3 ,

(5%)

(b) Find the generating function (in closed form) for the sequence a0, a1 , a2 , ,
where an =

Pn 1
i=0 i! .

(5%)

5. Determine a recurrence relation for each of the sequence an defined below.


(a) Suppose that there are n people at a party and that each of these people
shakes hands (exactly one time) with all of the other people there (and no one
shakes hands with himself or herself). an is the total number of handshakes.
(5%)
(b) an is the number of binary sequences of length n that have no consecutive
1s. (5%)

6. Solve the following recurrence relation. (No final answer should involve
complex numbers.) (30%)
(a) an+3 + 6an+2 + 12an+1 + 8an = 0
(b) an 2an1 + 5an2 = 0
(c) an 5an1 + 6an2 = 2n + n
7. Solve the following recurrence relation by the method of generating function.
(10%)
an+2 3an+1 + 2an = 0, n 0, a0 = 1, a1 = 6.
8. In how many ways can 24 identical robots be assigned to 4 assembly lines
with at least 3 robots assigned to each line? (10%)
9. Please describe the superposition principle in solving linear equation. (10%)

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