Code: 20MCA11
MCA I Semester Regular Examinations, February-2021
MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 70
Note: Answer all questions from Part-A & Part-B. Each question carries equal marks.
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PART-A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
1. Answer all questions. Each question carries 2 marks
- Define tautology and contradiction.
- Write about converse and contrapositive.
- Define partial order relation with example.
- Write about Pigeonhole principle.
- Define group and monoid.
- Define homomorphism and automorphism.
- Write about spanning tree.
- Define chromatic number.
- Define finite and infinite state machines.
- Write about regular expressions.
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PART-B (5 x 10 = 50 Marks)
Answer all questions. Each question carries 10 marks
-  (a) Obtain PDNF and PCNF of the formula 
 (P ? (P ? ~Q)) ? (~P ? (~P ? Q))(OR) --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- (b) Explain about rules of inference for propositional calculus. 
-  (a) If f: A ? B and g: B ? C be two functions, then show that if g o f is one-to-one then f is one-to-one. (OR) (b) From 10 mathematics professors and 5 computer science professors, a committee of 6 is to be formed. How many different committees can be formed if --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- - There are no restrictions?
- The committee must contain at least 3 mathematics professors?
- The committee must contain at least 1 computer science professor?
 
-  (a) State and prove Lagrange's theorem. --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- (OR) (b) Let (A, *) be a group. Show that (A, *) is an abelian group if and only if 
 (a * b)² = a² * b², for all a, b ? A
-  (a) Explain Kruskal's algorithm with example. --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- (OR) (b) Explain about graph coloring with example. 
-  (a) Construct a finite state machine that accepts all strings over {a, b} containing "aba". (OR) --- Content provided by FirstRanker.com --- (b) Convert the following NFA to DFA. 
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