Found problems: 43
Find the probability that any given row in Pascal’s Triangle contains a perfect square.
[i] (.1 point)[/i]
Writing down the first $4$ rows of the Pascal triangle in the usual way and then adding up the numbers in vertical columns, we obtain $7$ numbers as shown above. If we repeat this procedure with the first $1024$ rows of the Pascal triangle, how many of the $2047$ numbers thus obtained will be odd?
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/8/a/4dc4a815d8b002c9f36a6da7ad6e1c11a848e9.png[/img]
Let $S$ be a string of $99$ characters, $66$ of which are $A$ and $33$ are $B$. We call $S$ [i]good[/i] if, for each $n$ such that $1\le n \le 99$, the sub-string made from the first $n$ characters of $S$ has an odd number of distinct permutations. How many good strings are there? Which strings are good?
A triangle of numbers is constructed as follows. The first row consists of the numbers from $1$ to $2000$ in increasing order, and under any two consecutive numbers their sum is written. (See the example corresponding to $5$ instead of $2000$ below.) What is the number in the lowermost row?
1 2 3 4 5
3 5 7 9
8 12 16
20 28
4
Compute the prime factorization of $1007021035035021007001$. (You should write your answer in the form $p_1^{e_1}p_2^{e_2}\ldots p_k^{e_k}$ where $p_1,\ldots,p_k$ are distinct prime numbers and $e_1,\ldots,e_k$ are positive integers.)
Consider the following array:
\[ 3, 5\\3, 8, 5\\3, 11, 13, 5\\3, 14, 24, 18, 5\\3, 17, 38, 42, 23, 5\\ \ldots
\] Find the 5-th number on the $ n$-th row with $ n>5$.
Let $p$ be a prime number. Prove that there is no number divisible by $p$ in the $n-th$ row of Pascal's triangle if and only if $n$ can be represented in the form $n = p^sq - 1$, where $s$ and $q$ are integers with $s \geq 0, 0 < q < p$.
In Pascal's Triangle, each entry is the sum of the two entries above it. The first few rows of the triangle are shown below.
\[\begin{array}{c@{\hspace{8em}}
c@{\hspace{6pt}}c@{\hspace{6pt}}c@{\hspace{6pt}}c@{\hspace{4pt}}c@{\hspace{2pt}}
c@{\hspace{2pt}}c@{\hspace{2pt}}c@{\hspace{2pt}}c@{\hspace{3pt}}c@{\hspace{6pt}}
c@{\hspace{6pt}}c@{\hspace{6pt}}c} \vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 0: } & & & & & & & 1 & & & & & & \\\vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 1: } & & & & & & 1 & & 1 & & & & & \\\vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 2: } & & & & & 1 & & 2 & & 1 & & & & \\\vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 3: } & & & & 1 & & 3 & & 3 & & 1 & & & \\\vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 4: } & & & 1 & & 4 & & 6 & & 4 & & 1 & & \\\vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 5: } & & 1 & & 5 & &10& &10 & & 5 & & 1 & \\\vspace{4pt}
\text{Row 6: } & 1 & & 6 & &15& &20& &15 & & 6 & & 1
\end{array}\]
In which row of Pascal's Triangle do three consecutive entries occur that are in the ratio $3: 4: 5$?
Consider the Pascal's triangle in the figure where the binomial coefficients are arranged in the usual manner. Select any binomial coefficient from anywhere except the right edge of the triangle and labet it $C$. To the right of $C$, in the horizontal line, there are $t$ numbers, we denote them as $a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_t$, where $a_t = 1$ is the last number of the series. Consider the line parallel to the left edge of the triangle containing $C$, there will only be $t$ numbers diagonally above $C$ in that line. We successively name them as $b_1,b_2,\cdots,b_t$, where $b_t = 1$. Show that
\[b_ta_1-b_{t-1}a_2+b_{t-2}a_3-\cdots+(-1)^{t-1}b_1a_t = 1\].
For example, Suppose you choose $\binom41 = 4$ (see figure), then $t = 3$, $a_1 = 6, a_2 = 4, a_3 = 1$ and $b_1 = 3, b_2 = 2, b_3 = 1$.
\[\begin{array}{ccccccccccc} & & & & & 1 & & & & & \\
& & & & 1 & & \underset{b_3}{1} & & & & \\
& & & 1 & & \underset{b_2}{2} & & 1 & & & \\
& & 1 & & \underset{b_1}{3} & & 3 & & 1 & & \\
& 1 & & \boxed{4} & & \underset{a_1}{6} & & \underset{a_2}{4} & & \underset{a_3}{1} & \\
\ldots & & \ldots & & \ldots & & \ldots & & \ldots & & \ldots \\
\end{array}\]
Let $p$ be a prime. A [i]complete residue class modulo $p$[/i] is a set containing at least one element equivalent to $k \pmod{p}$ for all $k$.
(a) Show that there exists an $n$ such that the $n$th row of Pascal's triangle forms a complete residue class modulo $p$.
(b) Show that there exists an $n \le p^2$ such that the $n$th row of Pascal's triangle forms a complete residue class modulo $p$.
Let $S$ be a string of $99$ characters, $66$ of which are $A$ and $33$ are $B$. We call $S$ [i]good[/i] if, for each $n$ such that $1\le n \le 99$, the sub-string made from the first $n$ characters of $S$ has an odd number of distinct permutations. How many good strings are there? Which strings are good?
Find all positive integers $n$ such that there are $\infty$ many lines of Pascal's triangle that have entries coprime to $n$ only. In other words: such that there are $\infty$ many $k$ with the property that the numbers $\binom{k}{0},\binom{k}{1},\binom{k}{2},...,\binom{k}{k}$ are all coprime to $n$.
[asy]
label("$1$",(0,0),S);
label("$1$",(-1,-1),S);
label("$1$",(-2,-2),S);
label("$1$",(-3,-3),S);
label("$1$",(-4,-4),S);
label("$1$",(1,-1),S);
label("$1$",(2,-2),S);
label("$1$",(3,-3),S);
label("$1$",(4,-4),S);
label("$2$",(0,-2),S);
label("$3$",(-1,-3),S);
label("$3$",(1,-3),S);
label("$4$",(-2,-4),S);
label("$4$",(2,-4),S);
label("$6$",(0,-4),S);
label("etc.",(0,-5),S);
//Credit to chezbgone2 for the diagram[/asy]
Pascal's triangle is an array of positive integers(See figure), in which the first row is $1$, the second row is two $1$'s, each row begins and ends with $1$, and the $k^\text{th}$ number in any row when it is not $1$, is the sum of the $k^\text{th}$ and $(k-1)^\text{th}$ numbers in the immediately preceding row. The quotient of the number of numbers in the first $n$ rows which are not $1$'s and the number of $1$'s is
$\textbf{(A) }\dfrac{n^2-n}{2n-1}\qquad\textbf{(B) }\dfrac{n^2-n}{4n-2}\qquad\textbf{(C) }\dfrac{n^2-2n}{2n-1}\qquad\textbf{(D) }\dfrac{n^2-3n+2}{4n-2}\qquad \textbf{(E) }\text{None of these}$
Each number in the second, third, and further rows of the following triangle:
[img]https://cdn.artofproblemsolving.com/attachments/1/5/589d9266749477b0f56f0f503d4f18a6e5d695.png[/img]
is equal to the difference of two neighbouring numbers standing above it. Find the last number (at the bottom of the triangle).
(GW Leibnitz,)
Let $p$ be a prime number. Prove that there is no number divisible by $p$ in the $n-th$ row of Pascal's triangle if and only if $n$ can be represented in the form $n = p^sq - 1$, where $s$ and $q$ are integers with $s \geq 0, 0 < q < p$.
Find the number of subsets $X$ of $\{1,2,\dots,10\}$ such that $X$ contains at least two elements and such that no two elements of $X$ differ by $1$.
Prove that for any positive integer $n$, the number of odd integers among the binomial coefficients $\binom nh \ ( 0 \leq h \leq n)$ is a power of 2.
For a sequence $u_1,u_2\dots,$ define $\Delta^1(u_n)=u_{n+1}-u_n$ and, for all integer $k>1$, $\Delta^k(u_n)=\Delta^1(\Delta^{k-1}(u_n))$. If $u_n=n^3+n$, then $\Delta^k(u_n)=0$ for all $n$
$\textbf{(A) }\text{if }k=1\qquad$
$\textbf{(B) }\text{if }k=2,\text{ but not if }k=1\qquad$
$\textbf{(C) }\text{if }k=3,\text{ but not if }k=2\qquad$
$\textbf{(D) }\text{if }k=4,\text{ but not if }k=3\qquad$
$\textbf{(E) }\text{for no value of }k$