Questions tagged [pigeonhole-principle]

This tag is for questions involving the Pigeonhole Principle, which roughly states that if $n$ items are placed in $m$ containers and $n>m$, then at least one container has more than one item.

The Pigeonhole Principle roughly states that if $n$ items (e.g. pigeons) are placed in $m$ containers (e.g. pigeonholes) and $n>m,$ then at least one container has more than one item. Stated more formally, the Pigeonhole Principle asserts that there is no injective function whose codomain has smaller cardinality than its domain.

An example application of the Pigeonhole Principle is a demonstration that if five points are placed on a sphere, then there must be some hemisphere which contains at least four of these points: any two points define a great circle, which divides the sphere into two hemispheres. By the Pigeonhole Principle, one of these two hemispheres must contain at least two points. This hemisphere then contains four of the five points (the two on the boundary, and the two found via the Pigeonhole Principle).

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How can I explain Pigeon Hole Principle to a child in a simple manner?

There is a exhibition in our school.I took up mathematics part in the exhibition. all types of people will be there. can anyone suggest me how can i explain PHP to small children ?? how can i make it interesting to them??
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Proof of the lack of existence of a Hamiltonian Cycle

Consider a graph of $|V| = 2k+1$ vertices with $k+1$ of those vertices having exactly degree $2$ such that none of those degree $2$ vertices are adjacent to each other. I want to go about proving that there does not exist a Hamiltonian cycle within…
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Generalized pigeonhole principle Question

Question: The island of Tikong has seventeen villages and the rugby board needs to select a squad to be sent to the regional Oceania tournament to be held in Savulevu. What is the smallest size of the squad guaranteeing that every village has a…
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What is the smallest number of a class to guarantee that two students have their birthdays on the same day of the week?

My answer: k=7 days in a week r=2 according to the GPP(Generalized pigeonhole principle) the smallest number N=k(r-1)+1 N=7(2-1)+1=8 therefor 8 will be the smallest number. is this correct?
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Explain Pigeon holes principle in your own words.

my own words explanation: If there is four pigeonholes in which six pigeons uses to lay their eggs, then there is atleast one pigeonhole housing two or more pigeons. Does my wordings correct and relevant?
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Pigeon Hole Priciple and Genaralized Pigeon Hole Principle Question

Question: What is the minimum number of students required in a discrete mathematics class to be sure that at least six will receive the same grade, if there are five possible grades, $A, B, C, D$, and $F$? Solution: The minimum number of students to…
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how to find pigeon holes in a question related to pigeon hole principle

prove that every set of 10 two digit numbers has two disjoint subsets with the same sum of elements. In this question i don't know how to choose the pigeon holes, or what will be the pigeon holes
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Pigeon hole subset problem

For a given N numbers labeled from 1-N, we need to pick M numbers such that there are atleast K pairs of numbers(x,y) which statisfy x+y=N+1? can anyone help me out with this... please?
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Pigeon Hole Principle - proof of d as a positive integer

Let $d$ be a positive integer and consider any set $A$ of $d+1$ positive integers. Show that there exists two different numbers $x, y\ \epsilon\ A$ so that $ x \mod\ d = y \mod\ d$ and $x =/= y$. Remainders after division by $d$ must fall in the…
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Mantissa of $\pi$ and pigeonhole

It might be worth noting that this is a "pigeonhole principle" problem, but I'm not sure how to use PHP with it. The mantissa of $\pi$ is the fractional part of it (i.e. everything after the decimal place). A question from class asks me to prove…
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High school pigeonhole principle question

Let p(x) be a polynomial with real coefficients and such that the product of all the roots is negative. Show that if the degree of p(x) is 6, then p(x) has at least one positive root.
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Pigeonhole Principle Problem - need help understanding the concept

Let $n ∈ \mathbb{N}$ be a natural number and let $X ⊆ \mathbb{N}$ be a subset with $n + 1$ elements. Show that there exist two natural numbers $x, y ∈ X$ such that $x − y$ is divisible by $n$.
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Pigeon Hole Principle x

How many different numbers must be selected from the first 25 positive integers to be certain that at least one of them will be twice the other ?
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Pigeonhole Principle - Doubt

I think this might be a stupid doubt but I still would want this to be clarified. Here is the following question from the AOPS website for pigeonhole principle. If a Martian has an infinite number of red, blue, yellow, and black socks in a…
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What is the Genaralized Pigeonhole Principle? Explain in your own words

My words:It is the least possible number that one can get when placing objects into boxes, given that the number of objects is greater than the number of boxes. Did my wordings correct?
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