#import "@youwen/zen:0.1.0": * #import "@preview/mitex:0.2.5": * #show: zen.with( title: "Homework 3", author: "Youwen Wu", ) #set heading(numbering: none) #set par(first-line-indent: 0pt, spacing: 1em) #let nonzero = $ZZ_(!=0)$ Problems: 1.5: $hash$ 3cdefgh, 4de, 6de, 7ab, 9, 10, 11, 12a 1.6: $hash$ 1bd, 4abcd, 6abefik 2.1: $hash$ 4, 5, 6abcd, 8, 11ab, 14ab, 15abcd = 1.5 *3c.* If $x^2$ is not divisible by 4, then $x$ is odd. #proof[ Suppose $x$ is not odd. We seek to show that $x^2$ is divisible by $4$. Then $x$ is even and $exists k in ZZ_(!=0), x = 2k$. Thus $x^2 = 4k^2$, which implies $4 | x^2$. So $x$ is not odd implies $x^2$ is divisible by 4, and therefore the contrapositive (which is our original statement) is also true. ] *3d.* If $x y$ is even, then either $x$ or $y$ is even. #proof[ Suppose that $not (x "or" y" is even")$. In other words, $x$ and $y$ are both odd. We seek to show that $x y$ is odd. Then $exists j,k in ZZ_(n!=0), x = 2j + 1, y = 2k + 1$. So $x y = 4 j k + 2j + 2k + 1 = 2 (2 j k + j + k) + 1$ where $2 j k + j + k$ is an integer so $x y$ is odd. This is the contrapositive, so the original statement is also true. ] *3e.* If $x + y$ is even, then $x$ and $y$ have the same parity. #proof[ Suppose $x$ and $y$ had different parities. We seek to show that $x + y$ is odd. Without loss of generality, let us inspect the case where $x$ is odd. Then $y$ must be even and $ exists j,k in ZZ_(!=0), x = 2j + 1, y = 2k \ x + y = 2j + 1 + 2k = 2(j + k) + 1 = 2n + 1, n in ZZ_(n!=0) $ Repeat the same reasoning for when $x$ is even and $y$ is odd. We've shown that $x$ and $y$ having different parities implies that $x + y$ is odd. Therefore the contrapositive is also true. ] *3f.* If $x y$ is odd, then both $x$ and $y$ are odd. #proof[ Suppose that both $x$ and $y$ are odd was not true, in other words $x$ or $y$ are even (here or is the logical $or$). We seek to show that this implies $x y $ is even. Then we have two cases: either $x$ or $y$, but not both, are even, and the case where $x$ and $y$ are both even. We look at the first case, without loss of generality, assume $x$ is even and $y$ is odd. Then $ exists j,k in ZZ_(!= 0), x = 2j, y = 2k + 1 \ x y = 2j(2k + 1) = 4 j k + 2j = 2(2 j k + j) = 2n, n in ZZ_(!=0) $ So $x$ and $y$ having different parities implies $x y$ is even. The argument holds identically when instead $y$ is even and $x$ is odd. Now we turn our attention to the case when $x$ and $y$ are both even. Then $ exists j,k in ZZ_(!=0), x = 2j, y = 2k \ x y = 2j dot 2k = 4 j k = 2 (2 j k) = 2n, n in ZZ_(!=0) $ So this also implies that $x y$ is even. Therefore $x$ or $y$ being even indeed implies $x y$ is also even, and the contrapositive is also true. ] *3g.* If 8 does not divide $x^2 - 1$, then $x$ is even. #proof[ Suppose that $x$ is odd. We seek to show that 8 does in fact divide $x^2 - 1$. $ exists k in nonzero, x = 2k + 1 \ x^2 - 1 = 4k^2 + 4k = 4(k^2 + k) $ Now we need to see if it's divisible by 8. First consider the unique case $k = 0$, where $x^2 - 1 = 0$. Clearly $8 | 0$ so 8 does divide $x^2-1$. Now we consider all other values. Notice that for all other possible values of $k$, $k^2 + k$ is greater than 1. We see this by noting that $k^2 + k$ is a quadratic with its absolute minima at $k = 1/2$, therefore we can check the two non-zero integers closest to this value. For $k = 1$, $k^2 + k = 2$. Since we already checked $k=-1$, let's check $k=-2$, which gives $k^2 + k = 2$. For all values of $k$ greater than 1 or less than $-2$, $k^2 + k$ must be greater than 2 (because it's a quadratic). Therefore $4(k^2 + k)$ can be written as $8n$ for some integer $n$, so 8 indeed divides $x^2 - 1$ for all possible $k$, and the contrapositive is also true. ] *3h.* If $x$ does not divide $y z$, then $x$ does not divide $z$. #proof[ Assume $x$ does divide $z$. We seek to show that $x$ does divide $y z$. If $x | z$ then $exists k in nonzero, k x = z$. So $y z$ can be written as $y k x$. But this shows $exists j in nonzero, j x = y z$, namely $j = y k$, which means $x | y z$, and the contrapositive is also true. ] *4d.* If $(x+1)(x-1) < 0$, then $x < 1$. #proof[ Suppose that $x >= 1$. We seek to show that $(x+1)(x-1) >= 0$. Expanding out factors, $ (x+1)(x-1) = x^2 - 1>= 0 $ This quadratic is zero at exactly $x = 1$ and positive for all $x > 1$. So it's true for all possible values of $x$. Therefore our original statement is also true. ] *4e.* If $x(x-4) > -3$, then $x < 1$ or $x > 3$. #proof[ Suppose that $x >= 1$ and $x <= 3$. We seek to show $x(x-4) <= -3$. Expanding out factors, $ x(x-4) = x^2 - 4x > -3 $ This quadratic has its stationary point at $x = 2$. Let's check its value at $x = 1$ and $x = 3$. At $x = 1$, $x(x-4) = -3$. So for all values greater than 1 until $x = 2$, $x^2 - 4x$ is less than $-3$. Our inequality is satisfied. At $x = 3$, $x(x-4) = -3$ again. So for all values less than 3 until $x = 2$, $x^2 - 4x$ is less than $-3$. Our inequality is satisfied for both $x >=1$ and $x <=3$, so $x^2 -4x > -3$ is true for all possible $x$ and the contrapositive is also true. ] *6d.* If $a - b$ is odd, then $a + b$ is odd. #proof[ Suppose, seeking a contradiction, that if $a - b$ is even, then $a + b$ is odd. Then $exists k in nonzero, a - b = 2k$. Which means we can write $a + b = 2k + 2b$. But we can factor this as $2(k + b)$ and so $a + b = 2n, n in nonzero$, implying it is even. However we assumed that $a + b$ should be odd, a contradiction. Therefore $a - b$ must be odd. ] *6e.* If $a < b$ and $a b < 3$, then $a = 1$. #proof[ Suppose, seeking a contradiction, that $a >= b$ and $a b >= 3$ implies $a = 1$. Consider the specific cases $a = b$, $a b = 3$. Then $a = 3/a$, and $a = plus.minus sqrt(3)$. However we assumed $a = 1$ is implied, a contradiction. Therefore we must have $a < b$ and $a b < 3$. ] *7a.* $a c$ divides $b$ and $b$ divides $b + 3$ if and only if $a = 2$ and $b = 3$. We first show the result left to right, namely, $a c | b c => a | b$. $ exists k in nonzero, k a c = b c \ k a = b $ which is the definition of $a | b$. Now we show the right to left direction, namely, $a | b => a c | b c$. $ exists k in nonzero, k a = b \ k a dot c = b dot c $ So $a c | b c$ by the definition of divisibility. Therefore the biconditional is true, as we have shown both directions. *7b.* The right to left direction is very easy in this case. By directly plugging in $a = 2$, $b = 3$, we see that $2 + 1 | 3$ and $3 | 3 + 3$. To show the left to right case, *9.* #proof[ Suppose that instead $n/(n+1) <= n/(n+2)$. We can be assured the following operations do not flip the inequality as $n$ cannot be negative. $ n(n+2) <= n(n+1) \ n + 2 <= n + 1 \ 2 <= 1 $ So $n/(n+1) > n/(n+2)$. ] *10.* #proof[ Suppose that $sqrt(5)$ was rational. That is, $sqrt(5) = p/q$ for nonzero integers $p$ and $q$. Additionally, assume that $p/q$ is in its most reduced form, that is, $p$ and $q$ share no common factors besides 1. Then $ p^2 = 5q \ $ implies that $ 5 | p^2 $ We need to show that $5 | p^2 => 5 | p$. By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, $p^2$ has 5 as one of its unique prime factors. If 5 was not a factor of $p$, then $p^2 = p dot p$ would not have 5 in its factors either. So 5 is a factor of $p$ and thus $5 | p$. Note that 5 appears at least twice amongst the prime factors of $p^2$. Then $5q$ should also have at least two 5s in its prime factorization. Then $q$ has at least one 5 in its prime factorization. However we assumed that $p$ and $q$ share no common factors besides 1, so this is a contradiction. Therefore $sqrt(5)$ is not rational. ] *11.* #proof[ We say that two numbers $x$ and $y$ are within $1/2$ unit from one another if $|x - y| < 1/2$. Consider the distance between $z$, and $y$, if it is within $1/2$, then we are done. Otherwise $z - y >= 1/2$. We know that $ (1 - z) + x + (y-x) + (z-y) = 1 $ because this is the length of all the line segments partitioned by $x,y,z$, which is the interval 1. If $(z - y) >= 1/2$, then everything else must be less than $1/2$. So the maximum value of $y-x$, the distance between $x$ and $y$, is less than $1/2$. Therefore either $y$ and $z$ are within $1/2$ unit of each other or $y$ and $x$ are. ] *12a.*