1. Decide whether each of the statements below are true or false. *
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2. Find the remainder when 3^123 is divided by 7. Use the following properties from your lectures. *
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3. Let f(x) = 13x^3-5x^2+14x-10. Compute the least positive residue of f(12) mod 7. *
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4. How many remainder classes modulo 5 are there? *
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5. Use your answer to the previous question to prove that 5 divides n(n^4- 1) for any integer n >=0.
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6. Find great common divisor of 242 and 165 using the formula from the proof of lemma 5.1(see image) or Euclidean algorithm. *
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7. Calculate the great common divisor of (5^10 − 1) and (5^ 4-1).
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Solving Congruences
8. Let us start from the Bezout identies. Use the following theorem(and its corollary) to answer which of the following linear equations has a an integer solutions. *
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9. Solve the following linear equation 6x + 5y = 3. *
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10. Use the previous two questions to answer which of the following congruences has a solution. *
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11. Solve the following congruence 7x ≡ 12 (mod 13). *
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12. Which of the following statements are true? *
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13. Euler's Phi function phi(m), is the total number of elements in {0, 1, 2,...m} that are relatively prime to m. Use the following properties: phi(ab) = phi(a) phi(b) if a, b are coprime; phi(a^k) = a^k - a^(k-1) to calculate the phi(210). *
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14*. Find all n >= 0 for which 3^n + 4^n = 0 (mod 7). *
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15*. Let F(n) be the Fibonacci numbers, defined by F(0)=0, F(1)=1. F(n)=F(n-1)+F(n-2). Find if possible the solution to F(100)x + F(99)y = 1. There is no need to calculate the Fibonacci numbers.