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A choir director must select a group of singers from among his tenors and basses. The only requirements are that the difference between the number of tenors and basses must be a multiple of , and the group must have at least one singer. Let be the number of different groups that could be selected. What is the remainder when is divided by ?
Solution 1 (Bijection)
Suppose that tenors and basses are selected. The requirements are and
It follows that basses are not selected. Since the ordered pairs and the ordered pairs have one-to-one correspondence, we consider the ordered pairs instead. The requirements become and which simplify to and respectively.
As the total number of such groups is from which
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Solution 2 (Vandermonde's Identity)
Suppose that tenors and basses are selected. The requirements are and
Note that different groups can be formed by selecting tenors and basses. Since we apply casework:
- If then different group can be formed.
- If then different groups can be formed.
- If then different groups can be formed, recalling that
- If then different groups can be formed.
By the combinatorial identity and Vandermonde's Identity we find the total number of such groups: from which
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Solution 3 (Generating Functions)
The problem can be done using a roots of unity filter. Let . By expanding the binomials and distributing, is the generating function for different groups of basses and tenors. That is, where is the number of groups of basses and tenors. What we want to do is sum up all values of for which except for . To do this, define a new function Now we just need to sum all coefficients of for which . Consider a monomial . If , then Otherwise, is a sum of these monomials so this gives us a method to determine the sum we're looking for: (since and it can be checked that ). Hence, the answer is .
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Solution 4 (Enumeration)
Note that different groups can be formed by selecting tenors and basses. By casework, we construct the following table: We find the total number of such groups: from which
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- Small Note: notice all of the answers have different unit's digits, so it suffices to find the units digit, which is much simpler.
Video Solution by Punxsutawney Phil
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FD9BE7hpRvg&t=533s
Video Solution by Hawk Math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQARBvdZ20
Video Solution by OmegaLearn (Using Vandermonde's Identity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mki7xtZLk1I
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See also
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