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GATE | GATE-CS-2006 | Question 25

Let S = {1, 2, 3, ...., m}, m>3. Let x1, x2,....xn be the subsets of S each of size 3. Define a function f from S to the set of natural numbers as, f(i) is the number of sets [Tex]X_j[/Tex] that contain the element i. That is, f(i) = |{j|i [Tex]\\epsilon[/Tex] [Tex]X_j[/Tex]}|. Then, [Tex]\\sum_{i=1}f(i)[/Tex] is :

(A)

3m

(B)

3n

(C)

2m + 1

(D)

2n + 1

Answer

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