MAT102F - Introduction to Mathematical Proofs - Fall 2015 - UTM

Problem Set A - NOT to be submitted.

Quiz #1, to be written on Thursday, September 17, from 4:15pm to 4:45pm,

will be based on this Problem Set.
Location:

Last name A-C:

Last name D-L:
Last name M-Z:

DV2105F
DV2074
IB110

Work on the following exercises:

From the textbook:

Chapter 1, Exercises 1.3 (DO NOT use calculus), 1.19, 1.28, 1.29, 1.30, 1.35.
Ninety nine girls and one boy are in a mathematics class. How many girls must leave the room so
that the percentage of girls in the room becomes 96 percent?
If six men build six houses in six days, and nine women build nine houses in nine days, how many
houses can eighteen men and eighteen women build in eighteen days?
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Prove that | x y| |x y| for all x, y 0 .

Hint: Treat the cases x y and x y separately.
Note:
1. A hard copy of this document was handed out in the first lecture. The rest of the problem sets will
be posted on the course website ONLY, and you are responsible for downloading them every week
(and print them, if you wish).
2. If you have not purchased the textbook yet, you can download the textbook exercises assigned above
from the course website. You are expected to purchase the textbook by the end of the first week of
classes.