HMMT 二月 2009 · COMB 赛 · 第 1 题
HMMT February 2009 — COMB Round — Problem 1
题目详情
- [ 3 ] How many ways can the integers from − 7 to 7 inclusive be arranged in a sequence such that the absolute value of the numbers in the sequence does not decrease?
解析
- [ 3 ] How many ways can the integers from − 7 to 7 be arranged in a sequence such that the absolute value of the numbers in the sequence is nondecreasing? Answer: 128 Solution: Each of the pairs a , − a must occur in increasing order of a for a = 1 , . . . , 7, but a can 7 either occur before or after − a , for a total of 2 = 128 possible sequences.