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2020～2021 Academic Year: First Term International Ph.D Exam Paper Course Title: Applied Advanced Mathematics Exam Mode: Close-book Paper Type： A

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Total Ⅱ. (15’) A hobby store has 20 meters of fencing to fence off a rectangular area for
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an electric train in one corner of its display room. All four sides require fences.
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15 15 15 20 20 15 100 What dimensions of the rectangle will maximize the area? What is the maximum
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area?
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I. (15’) Given the following graph 𝑮, how many 4-walks from vertex 𝒂 to 𝒃?
How many 4-walks from vertex 𝒂 to itself ?
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Ⅲ. (15’) A vehicle was traveling along a straight way. The velocity as a function
of time is modeled by the function 𝒗(𝒕) = 𝟐𝒕𝟐 + 𝟑, where 𝒗(𝒕) is in feet per
second, 𝒕 is in seconds. How far did the vehicle travel in time interval [𝟎, 𝟓]?
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Ⅳ. (20’) Try to prove the following assertion:
(1) In a party of 6 persons, either three of them will be mutual friends or three
will be mutual strangers.
(2) Show that there exists a party of 5 persons, neither three of them are mutual
friends, nor three of them are mutual strangers. Illustrate their relationships
by a graph.

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Ⅴ. (20’) Imagine there are 4 people trying to get prizes from 6 balls, in which 2 of VI. (15’) Two players A and B originally planned a 3-game series. They put 50
them contain prizes. What's the probability for the first and second people to get dollars into the stake pool respectively. Whoever winning three games firstly
a prize? (Each people get one ball in an order, balls won't be returned after each will take all the stakes. However, after player A wins the first game, both people
round.) decide to stop the series. Now how to divide the stakes of 100 dollars?

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