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Quiz 10

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Counting passwords medium
Passwords have length exactly 15, composed of digits (0–9), capital letters (A–Z), and lowercase letters (a–z). (Do not simplify.)
(a) How many total passwords are there?
(b) How many contain no capital letters?
(c) How many contain at least one capital and at least one lowercase letter?
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Each character has \(10 + 26 + 26 = 62\) choices.
(a) \(62^{15}\).
(b) No capitals leaves \(36\) choices each: \(36^{15}\).
(c) By inclusion–exclusion (subtract no-capital and no-lowercase, add back digits-only):
\(62^{15} - 36^{15} - 36^{15} + 10^{15}.\)
Pigeonhole principle medium
There are 10 AOCs and 20 sport teams; each student declares exactly one AOC and plays exactly one team. How many students guarantee that at least three share the same AOC and same team?
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Answer: 401.

There are \(10 \cdot 20 = 200\) (AOC, team) boxes. To avoid three in any box, each holds at most \(2\), allowing \(400\) students. One more forces a box with \(3\): \(\left\lceil \tfrac{401}{200} \right\rceil = 3\). So \(401\) students suffice.