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MAT 117 Final Exam Fall 2013

December 11, 2013

Name_______________________________________ Section ___________

Question Points Worth Points Earned

Group Portion 30

1 6

2 10

3 10

4 9

5 6

6 6

7 12

8 12

9 6

10 9

11 6

12 8

Total Score: __________/130

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1. (6 points) In the following sequence, find the next three terms. Explain the pattern.

2, 5, 10, 17, 26, ___ , ___ , ___

2. (10 points) Diana is building a structure out of blocks for her children to climb on. She is
using blocks to make the structure in the shape shown below. Right now her structure is 4
blocks high, but she would like to make the structure taller, so that it is 16 blocks high.

a. How many blocks will be in the bottom row of the final structure (16 blocks high)?
Explain how you determined this.

b. How many total blocks will be in the final structure? Explain how you determined this.
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3. (10 points) True or False? If true, explain why. If false, explain why OR give a
counterexample.

a. The set of integers is closed under subtraction.

b. If a number is divisible by 3 and by 6, then it is also divisible by 18.

c. The probability of rolling a 2 or a 5 on a six-sided die is equal to the product the

probabilities of rolling each number: 1/6 · 1/6.

d. A two digit number in base 6 is always greater than a three digit number in base three.

e. The mean of a data set can be found on a box-and-whisker plot.

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4. (9 points) Mackenzie was asked to write (5 ∙ 64) + (2 ∙ 62) + (4 ∙ 61) as a base six numeral.
She wrote 524six.

a. Was she correct? If yes, why? If not, why not? Explain your reasoning and her possible
reasoning.

b. Consider the numeration system in use with some machines that uses the combination of
our digits and the first six letters of our alphabet. It is assumed that the letters represent
ten, eleven, and so on in order. The digits in this system are thus:
{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}

i. What is the base of this numeration system? Why?

ii. What number (in base ten) does the numeral AF represent? Why?
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5. (6 points) Find the missing digits in the following:

a. 1 ____ 2 four
+ 1 1 ___four
-- -
___ 1 0 four

b. 4 5 2seven
- 1 3seven

___ 0 ___seven

6. (6 points) The following is a lattice multiplication showing, where A, B, and C are each a
different digit, 0-9 (This is in base 10). Find the values of A, B, and C, and explain how you
got your results. Then compute the final product. (Hint: Find the value for A first and then use
that value to find B and C.)

5 B C
0 0 0
0 A
5 B C
3 A 4
C 6
0 2 C
4 4 C
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7. (12 points) a. How many factors does a number of the form p2 q r4, where p, q, and r
are prime, have?

b. If there are nine countries participating in a particular Olympic event, in how many
ways can gold, silver, and bronze be awarded if each country can enter only one
athlete?

c. In how many ways can a committee of 3 people be chosen from 8 members of a club?

d. Anna wants to set a password so that her younger sister cannot get into her computer.
The password consists of 4 letters, followed by a 2 digit number. If Anna wants the first
number of the password to be 6 (her favorite number), how many options does she have
for the password?
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8. (12 points) A bag contains 3 red balls, 2 blue balls, and 1 white ball. Two balls are drawn, one
after the other, without replacement and the color of each ball is recorded.

a. Draw a tree diagram representing this experiment. Be sure to put the probabilities on
the branches.

b. List the sample space of the experiment.

c. What is the probability of drawing two balls of the same color?

d. What is the probability that the first ball is red OR blue?

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9. (6 points) Suppose that a is a natural number greater than 2 for which the following
congruencies hold:

a  1mod 3
a  1mod 8
a  1mod 5

Solve for a. Is this the only possible solution? Explain your reasoning.

10. (9 points) a. Is the set of odd numbers {1, 3, 5, 7, 9...} closed under addition? Is it closed
under multiplication? Explain.

b. Does the set of natural numbers have an additive identity? Explain why or why not.

c. Use an example to show why multiplicative inverses are not a part of the set of
integers.
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11. (6 points) Perform the following operations modulo the number indicated in the parentheses.
Explain how you got your answer.

a. 28 + 3 (mod 4)

b. 2 – 4 (mod 5)

c. 2 ÷ 5 (mod 6)
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12. (8 points) The selling prices of 10 homes in a particular neighborhood are given by:

120,000 135,000 105,000 1,000,000 112,000

125,000 107,000 125,000 125,000 115,000

a. What measure would you use to describe the “typical” selling price of a home in that
neighborhood? Why?

b. What value does that measure give as the “typical” selling price?

c. Sketch a box-and-whisker plot for these data. Be sure to include a scale on your axis.