Math 145. Problem solving. Fall 2013.

Discovered book mistakes

p.3, l.4 - "basice" should be "basic" (thank you Araceli)

p.7, l.3 - "of" should be "or" (thank you Ricardo)

p.9, problem 1 - part (c) is missing (thanks Mainag)

p.10, problem 6(g) - parentheses are missing: should be for_all x ( P(x) or P(-x) ) (thank you Julio)

p.10, problem 9, l.1 - "proposition" should be "propositional function" (discovered by author; need to check all other problems for accuracy as well)

p.11, problem 14, l.5 - "though" should be "through" (thanks Julio)

p.19, problem 4 - need the following at the end of the first sentence: "and no three of these points lie on the same line" (thanks Araceli)

p.20, problem 13 - should be "2 if |i-j|=1$ (thank you Monorasmey)

p.22, problem 10 - should be "Prove that if there are n>2 persons..." (discovered by author)

p.25, Definition 6.5 - should be "...has exactly two positive divisors..." (thank you Julio)

p.25, Theorem 6.7 - remove "either" and "(or both)" to make it more clear (thank you Julio)

p.26, Definition 6.14, l.3 - should be "quotient and remainder respectively..." (thanks Julio)

p.27, problem 14 - extra "for" (thanks Julio)

p.43, solution to example 10.2, l.1 - "on" should be "in" (thanks Julio)

p.55, example 12.3 - "ale" should be "are" (thanks Julio)

p.63, solution to 13.18, l.6 - the word "red" appears twice (thank you Mainag)

p.73, definition 15.4 - "for every x in the domain of f and every y in the codomain of f" is missing (thanks Julio)

p.86, l.3 - part (c) is missing (discovered by author; of course, since it doesn't exist!)

p.91, l.4 - "lest" should be "least" (thanks Mainag)

p.91, problem 9, l.1 - "than" should be "then" (thank you Julio)

p.95, l.1 - "every" should be "each" (thanks Julio)

p.99, problem 1, l.9 - "cab" should be "can" (thanks Julio)

p.101, problem 3(a) - roots negative square root of 2 and square root of 2 are not integers and should be disreguarded (thank you Rawan)

p.114, problem 11, l.3 and l.4 - "blue" should be "gray" (discovered by author; the original file was full color :-))

p.116, problem 21, l.1 - "on" should be "in" (discovered by author)

p.116, solution to problem 21, l.3-6 - "yellow" should be "light gray" and "red" should be "dark gray" (discovered by author)


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