MA-410 Homework 2

Due at 4:59pm in my mailbox in SAS 3151, Wednesday, March 10, 2010


All solutions must be submitted in stapled in hardcopy either to me in class or placed in my mailbox.
Note my office hours on my schedule.

  1. Please prove for all integers n ≥ 3 with an odd factor that 2n + 1 is a composite integer.
  2. ENT, §3.3, Problem 28, page 61.
  3. ENT, §4.4, Problem 8, page 83.
  4. ENT, §4.4, Problem 20(c), page 84.
  5. ENT, §5.2, Problem 14, page 93.