MATH 104, HOMEWORK 1 DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 Exercise 1. Give an example of an ambiguous everyday sentence.

Carefully explain the dierent interpretations. The more creative, the better! Example from class: Everybody has a mother. Let x and y be human-valued variables, and let P (x, y) be the statement frame y is the mother of x. One interpretation: x, y s.t. P (x, y). Another, very dierent, interpretation: y s.t. x P (x, y). Exercise 2. Prove: (a) (P or Q) (( P )&( Q)). (b) (P Q) P &( Q). Exercise 3. Prove that (a) (P &(P Q)) Q and (b) ((P Q)&(Q R)) (P R) are tautologies. Exercise 4. Give an everyday example of a statement P with at least three quantiers (not all the same). Find the negation P . Again, the more creative, the better! Exercise 5. Let S be a set. Prove that S. Carefully explain your logic. Exercise 6. Prove by induction that the number of subsets of the set Nn = {1, 2, 3, . . . , n} is 2n . Exercise 7. Prove that, for m, n natural numbers, the number of ordered m-tuples whose coordinates belong to Nn equals nm . (Hint: use induction on m.)

Book Problems (from Elementary Analysis, by Kenneth A. Ross): 1. (1.3, 1.4, 1.12) 2. (2.2, 2.4) 3. (3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.8)
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