High School Mathematics Extensions/Counting and Generating Functions/Solutions

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These solutions were not written by the author of the rest of the book. They are simply the answers I thought were correct while doing the exercises. I hope these answers are useful for someone and that people will correct my work if I made some mistakes.

Generating functions exercises

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Linear Recurrence Relations exercises

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This section only contains the incomplete answers because I couldn't figure out where to go from here.

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Let G(z) be the generating function of the sequence described above.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Let G(z) be the generating function of the sequence described above.

 
 
 
 
 

3. Let G(z) be the generating function of the sequence described above.

 
 
 
 
 
We want to factorize   into   , by the converse of factor theorem, if (z - p) is a factor of f(z), f(p)=0.
Hence α and β are the roots of the quadratic equation  
Using the quadratic formula to find the roots:
 
In fact, these two numbers are the famous golden ratio and to make things simple, we use the greek symbols for golden ratio from now on.
Note:  is denoted   and   is denoted  
 
By the method of partial fraction:
 
 
 
 
 

Further Counting exercises

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1. We know that

 

therefore

 
Thus
 

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Thus
 

*Differentiate from first principle* exercises

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