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Consider a discrete-time system which in response to input sequence $x[n] \;( n$ integer) outputs the sequence $y[n]$ such that\[y[n]=\left\{\begin{array}{ll}0, & n=-1,-2...

A hotel has $n$ rooms numbered $1,2, \ldots, n$. For each room there is one spare key labeled with the room number. The hotel manager keeps all the spare keys in a box. H...

Let $\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} f(n)=\infty$ and $\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} g(n)=\infty$. Then which of the following is necessarily $\text{TRUE.}$$\lim _{n \rightar...

Consider\[f(x)=\frac{(x \log x+x)^{5}(1+2 / x)^{x}}{(x+1 / x)^{5}(\log x+1 / \log x)^{6}}\]What can we say about $\lim _{x \rightarrow \infty} f(x)$ ?The function $f(x)$ ...

Suppose $\vec{u}, \vec{v}_{1}, \vec{v}_{2} \in \mathbb{R}^{n}$ are linearly independent vectors. Let the pair of real numbers $\left(a_{1}^{*}, a_{2}^{*}\right)$ be such ...

Consider the system shown below.If $K>0$, which of the following describes the system?Stable, causalStable, non-causalUnstable, non-causalUnstable, causalCannot be determ...

Let $X_{1}, X_{2}$ and $X_{3}$ be independent random variables with uniform distribution over $[0, \theta]$. Consider the following statements.$E\left[\max \left\{X_{1}, ...

Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ real matrix for which two distinct non-zero $n$-dimensional real column vectors $v_{1}, v_{2}$ satisfy the relation $A v_{1}=A v_{2}$. Consider...

Let $X$ and $Y$ be two independent and identically distributed binary random variables that take values $\{-1,+1\}$ each with probability $1 / 2$. Let $Z_{1}=\max (X, Y)$...

Suppose that $X_{1}$ and $X_{2}$ denote the random outcomes of independent rolls of two dice each of which takes six values $1,2,3,4,5,6$ with equal probability. What is ...

Assume the following well known result: If a coin is flipped independently many times and its probability of heads $(H)$ is $p \in(0,1)$ and probability of tails $(T)$ is...

Suppose that Amitabh Bachchan has ten coins in his pocket. $3$ coins have tails on both sides. $4$ coins have heads on both sides. $3$ coins have heads on one side and ta...

Consider five distinct binary vectors $X_{1}, \ldots, X_{5}$ each of length $10$. Let\[d_{i j}=\sum_{k=1}^{10}\left(X_{i k} \text { XOR } X_{j k}\right),\](i.e., $d_{i j}...

Define the $\ell_{p}$ ball in two dimensions as the set of points $(x, y)$ such that $|x|^{p}+|y|^{p} \leq 1$. Which of the following is $\text{FALSE:}$The $\ell_{2}$ bal...

Consider real-valued continuous functions $f:[0,2] \rightarrow(-\infty, \infty)$ and let\[A=\int_{0}^{1}|f(x)| d x \quad \text { and } B=\int_{1}^{2}|f(x)| d x .\]Which o...