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2022 AIME I Problems/Problem 12

Revision as of 12:49, 23 February 2022 by Kingravi (talk | contribs) (→‎Solution 1 (Easy to Understand))

Problem

For any finite set $X$, let $| X |$ denote the number of elements in $X$. Define \[ S_n = \sum | A \cap B | , \] where the sum is taken over all ordered pairs $(A, B)$ such that $A$ and $B$ are subsets of $\left\{ 1 , 2 , 3, \cdots , n \right\}$ with $|A| = |B|$. For example, $S_2 = 4$ because the sum is taken over the pairs of subsets \[ (A, B) \in \left\{ (\emptyset, \emptyset) , ( \{1\} , \{1\} ), ( \{1\} , \{2\} ) , ( \{2\} , \{1\} ) , ( \{2\} , \{2\} ) , ( \{1 , 2\} , \{1 , 2\} ) \right\} , \] giving $S_2 = 0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 4$. Let $\frac{S_{2022}}{S_{2021}} = \frac{p}{q}$, where $p$ and $q$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find the remainder when $p + q$ is divided by 1000.

Solution 1 (Easy to Understand)

Let's try out for small values of $n$ to get a feel for the problem. When $n=1, S_n$ is obviously $1$. The problem states that for $n=2, S_n$ is $4$. Let's try it out for $n=3$.

Let's perform casework on the number of elements in $A, B$.

$\textbf{Case 1:} |A| = |B| = 1$

In this case, the only possible equivalencies will be if they are the exact same element, which happens $3$ times.

$\textbf{Case 2:} |A| = |B| = 2$

In this case, if they share both elements, which happens $3$ times, we will get $2$ for each time, and if they share only one element, which also happens $6$ times, we will get $1$ for each time, for a total of $12$ for this case.

$\textbf{Case 3:} |A| = |B| = 3$

In this case, the only possible scenario is that they both are the set $\{1,2,3\}$, and we have $3$ for this case.


In total, $S_3 = 18$.

Now notice, the number of intersections by each element $1 \ldots 3$, or in general, $1 \ldots n$ is equal for each element because of symmetry - each element when $n=3$ adds $6$ to the answer. Notice that $6 = \binom{4}{2}$ - let's prove that $S_n = n \cdot \binom{2n-2}{n-1}$ (note that you can assume this and answer the problem if you're running short on time in the real test).

Let's analyze the element $k$ - to find a general solution, we must count the number of these subsets that $k$ appears in. For $k$ to be in both $A$ and $B$, we need $A = \{k\} \cup A'| A' \subset \{1,2,\ldots,n\} \land A' \not \subset \{k\}$ and $B = \{k\} \cup B'| B' \subset \{1,2,\ldots,n\} \land B' \not \subset \{k\}$ (Basically, both sets contain $k$ and another subset of $1$ through $n$ not including $k$).

For any $0<=l<=n-1$ that is the size of both $A'$ and $B'$, the number of ways to choose the subsets $A'$ and $B'$ is $\binom{n-1}{l}$ for both subsets, so the total number of ways to choose the subsets are $\binom{n-1}{l}^2$. Now we sum this over all possible $l$'s to find the total number of ways to form sets $A$ and $B$ that contain $k$. This is equal to $\sum{l=0}{n-1} \binom{n-1}{l}^2$. This is a simplification of Vandermonde's identity, which states that $\sum{k=0}{r} \binom{m}{k} \cdot \binom{n}{r-k} = \binom{m+n}{r}$. Here, $m$, $n$ and $r$ are all $n-1$, so this sum is equal to $\binom{2n-2}{n-1}$. Finally, since we are iterating over all $k$'s for $n$ values of $k$, we have $S_n = n \cdot \binom{2n-2}{n-1}$, proving our claim.

Solution in Progress ~KingRavi

Solution 2 (Rigorous)

For each element $i$, denote $x_i = \left( x_{i, A}, x_{i, B} \right) \in \left\{ 0 , 1 \right\}^2$, where $x_{i, A} = \Bbb I \left\{ i \in A \right\}$ (resp. $x_{i, B} = \Bbb I \left\{ i \in B \right\}$).

Denote $\Omega = \left\{ (x_1, \cdots , x_n): \sum_{i = 1}^n x_{i, A} = \sum_{i = 1}^n x_{i, B} \right\}$.

Denote $\Omega_{-j} = \left\{ (x_1, \cdots , x_{j-1} , x_{j+1} , \cdots , x_n): \sum_{i \neq j} x_{i, A} = \sum_{i \neq j} x_{i, B} \right\}$.

Hence, \begin{align*} S_n & = \sum_{(x_1, \cdots , x_n) \in \Omega} \sum_{i = 1}^n \Bbb I \left\{ x_{i, A} = x_{i, B} = 1 \right\} \\ & = \sum_{i = 1}^n \sum_{(x_1, \cdots , x_n) \in \Omega} \Bbb I \left\{ x_{i, A} = x_{i, B} = 1 \right\} \\ & = \sum_{i = 1}^n \sum_{(x_1, \cdots , x_{i-1} , x_{i+1} , \cdots , x_n) \in \Omega_{-i}} 1 \\ & = \sum_{i = 1}^n \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \left( \binom{n-1}{j} \right)^2 \\ & = n \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \left( \binom{n-1}{j} \right)^2 \\ & = n \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \binom{n-1}{j} \binom{n-1}{n-1-j} \\ & = n \binom{2n-2}{n-1} . \end{align*}

Therefore, \begin{align*} \frac{S_{2022}}{S_{2021}} & = \frac{2022 \binom{4042}{2021}}{2021 \binom{4040}{2020}} \\ & = \frac{4044 \cdot 4041}{2021^2} . \end{align*}

This is in the lowest term. Therefore, modulo 1000, \begin{align*} p + q & \equiv 4044 \cdot 4041 + 2021^2 \\ & \equiv 44 \cdot 41 + 21^2 \\ & \equiv \boxed{\textbf{(245) }} . \end{align*}

~Steven Chen (www.professorchenedu.com)

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