Giving Away Money

A rich man is on the verge of dying. He has unlimited amount of money and intends to distribute some of it among his n n relatives with the following conditions :-

  1. Total money to be distributed must be a positive multiple of j j
  2. No relative gets more than ( m j 1 mj-1 ) rupees. (A relative may also get no money)

Find total number of ways in which the rich man can distribute the money

Take n = 6 n=6 , j = 5 j=5 and m = 3 m=3


The answer is 2278124.

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1 solution

Neelesh Vij
Jan 27, 2016

The man can give either 0 , 5 , 10.... 0 ,5,10 .... rupees. So the required answer is:

a j + a 2 j + a 3 j . . . . a_j + a_{2j} +a_{3j}.... ; where a n a_n represent coefficient of x n x^n in the expansion ( 1 + x + x 2 + . . . . . + x m j 1 ) n (1 + x + x^2 +.....+ x^{mj -1}) ^ n

Plugging in values, we need to find a 5 + a 10 + a 15 a_5 + a_{10} +a_{15} in ( 1 + x + x 2 + . . . . . + x 14 ) 6 (1 + x + x^2 +.....+ x^{14}) ^ 6 .

For this we plug in 5 t h 5^{th} roots of unity one by one in the expression and sum it then divide the summation by 5 5 . Also it is easy to say that except for 1 1 all other 5 t h 5^{th} roots of unity give value 0 0 when put into expression so our answer simplifies into:

1 5 6 5 1 = 2278124 \displaystyle \frac{15^{6}}{5} - 1 = \boxed{2278124}

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