Such Relations, Much Wow!

Let A A be the set of all primes which cannot be expressed as 6 p ± 1 6p\pm1 , p N p\in \mathbb{N} . Let R R be a random relation mapping from A A to itself. The probability that the relation maps all the elements in the domain to all the elements in the co domain is given by a b \frac{a}{b} , where a , b N a,b\in \mathbb{N} and g . c . d . ( a , b ) = 1 g.c.d.(a,b)=1 . Find a + b a+b

Details:

The relation is bijective.


The answer is 3.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Julian Yu
Dec 3, 2018

Let p p be a prime greater than 3 3 . Clearly, p ≢ 0 , 2 , 4 ( m o d 6 ) p\not\equiv0, 2, 4 \pmod{6} because it would be even, and p ≢ 3 ( m o d 6 ) p\not\equiv 3\pmod{6} because it would be divisible by 3 3 . Therefore, p 1 , 5 ( m o d 6 ) p\equiv 1,5\pmod{6} , meaning it can be expressed in the form 6 k ± 1 6k\pm 1 for some k N k\in\mathbb{N} .

Hence the set A A is simply { 2 , 3 } \{2,3\} . There are 2 2 = 4 2\cdot 2=4 mappings in total, but only two of these satisfy the condition: { 2 , 3 } { 2 , 3 } \{2,3\}\rightarrow\{2,3\} and { 2 , 3 } { 3 , 2 } \{2,3\}\rightarrow\{3,2\} . Hence the answer is 2 4 = 1 2 a + b = 3 \frac{2}{4}=\frac{1}{2}\implies a+b=\boxed{3} .

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...