Homework Assignments for
MTE 210
Work out and write up solutions to the following exercises from the
Billstein textbook (9th edition). Feel free to do extra problems as
well, especially some of the Review Exercises in each set. In addition,
you should answer all the Questions from the Classroom at the end of
each chapter. The Chapter Review items make a good review for tests.
NOTATION: "*" means the exercise parts given in blue; "BT" means brain
teaser; "LA" means lab activity.
- Section 1-1 (pages 19–21): 1,
3, 10, 11a, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27a, 30, 34, 35
- Section 1-2 (pages 36–39): 1*, 2, 3ce, 5, 7,
9, 14, 16a, 17bd, 19, 31
- Omit section 1-3.
- Section 1-4 (pages 62–64): 1*, 2*, 3abd, 4,
5, 6*, 7*, 8ij, 10, 12*, 13, 14c (and form the negation as well), 15,
16, 18, 19, 20, 21
- Section 2-1 (pages 83–84): 1*, 2*, 3cd,
4, 7ef, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24
- Section 2-2 (pages 92–95): 1, 4bdfg, 5, 6fh,
10, 12a, 14, 15, 17, 31, 40
- Section 2-3 (pages 108–110): 1, 5bde, 14a,
18, 21, 25
- Section 2-4 (pages 124–127): 3df, 4, 13, 15,
17, 20*, 21, 26, 30, 31e, 32, 33, 41, 44 (answer given in the book is
quite inadequate), LA
- Section 2-5 (pages 139–146): 1, 2, 3, 10, 11,
12, 16, 18, 21, 22, 26, 33, 36
- Section 3-1 (pages 166–168): 1ab, 2ac, 4*,
10, 11ab, 12, 15*, 17, 18a, 20, 24, 26ac, 30*, 31, 39a, BT
- Section 3-2 (pages 178–181):
2, 8, 9, 10, 19, 26a, 31, 32, 37, and make up and do two hard addition
problems and two hard
subtraction problems in base six (and check your answers)
- Section 3-3 (pages 194–199):
1a, 2a, 6, 10, 19, 31, 42, 47 LA#2, and make up and do two hard
multiplication
problems and two hard division problems in base six (and check your
answers)
- Section 3-4 (pages 206–208):
1, 2, 5, 7, 10 (and determine whether you can tell without computing the
exact answer whether your estimate is too high or too low), 12a, 14, 18,
22, 23, 28, 29
- Section 4-1 (pages 228–230): 3, 4, 7, 9,
10 (do it with charged field model, too), 23, 27, 30c, 36, 47a
- Section 4-2 (pages 242–245): 6, 11, 16, 19,
27, 28, 29a, 30a, 44
- Section 4-3 (pages 255–258):
1, 2, 3a, 4, 9, 16, 33, 34, 35, 41
- Section 4-4 (pages 269–272): 1, 2eh, 3b,
6agh, 10a, 11, 14 (this is not trivial), 21, 31, 32, 39
- Section 4-5 (pages 282–285): 2ac, 3c, 4d, 8,
9, 14, 16abdg, 32, 33, 34, BT
- Omit Section 4-6.
- Section 5-1 (pages 310–313): 2, 3, 13,
18, 19, 23, 25 (the answers are complicated), 31, 32c, 41
- Section 5-2 (pages 325–328):
8, 9, 10, 13, 16, 21bd, 22bd, 24, 26, 29, 41 (two people is enough)
- Section 5-3 (pages 342–346): 1, 2a, 9*, 10*,
12, 16, 18, 19, 36, 40, 47
- Section 5-4 (pages 355–358): 1, 8, 10, 11,
13, 15, 17, 21, 26, 27, 34
(why is the book's answer wrong?), 36
- Section 6-1 (pages 373–374): 1a, 2a, 3*,
4*, 5c, 8, 18, 19, 20, 23a
- Section 6-2 (pages 385–387): 6, 7, 25, 26, 28
- Section 6-3 (page 396–397): 1*, 2, 8, 9, 11
- Section 6-4 (pages 404–406): 1, 2, 9, 12, 13,
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and prove that the square root of 3 is
irrational
- Section 6-5 (pages 416–420): 1*, 2*, 5, 9,
11, 15, 18, 26, 27, 41, 42, 47, 48
- Omit section 6-6.
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