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School of Arts, Sciences, Humanities &
SASTRA Education.
Second CIA Examn -March 2025
Course Code: MAT302
Course Name: Discrete Structures
Duration: 90 minutes Max Marks: 50
PART A (Answer all the questions)
5 x
2= 10 Marks
1. Use mathematical induction to prove that n
+ 2n is divisible by 3,
n1,
|A particle is moving in the horizontal direction. The distance it travels in
each second is equal to two times the distance it travelled in the previous
2.
second. If a, denotes the position of the particle in the rsecond,
determine a,, given that ao =3 and ag 10.
=
3. |State and prove handshaking theorem.
Give two distinguishing differences between Eulerian and Hamiltonian
4. graph and draw the appropriate graph.
5. Prove that Kg,3 is non-planar graph.
PART B (Answer any FOURquestions) 4x 10 = 4O Marks
|Apply mathematical induction and show that
1.3.5..2n-1) 1
6. 2.4.6...(2n)
1,2,3 .c
Use the method of generating function and solve the recurrence relation ,n
7.
4an1-4a,- + 4";n2 2,given that a, 2 and a, 8.
= =
a
|(a) Üse Prim's algorithm to find
minimum spanning tree for the
weighted graph given in the figure.
(Sm)
Show that the following
statements are equivalent for any
connected graph G.
)Gis 2-colorable. (i) c ie bipartite. (ii) Every cycle
of G
has evên
|length. (5m)
9. State and prove Euler's (Euler's Polyhedron) formula.
10. Prove that every planar five colorable.
graph is