Practice - Definition of Subsequences
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Practice Questions
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Define 'subsequence' in your own words.
💡 Hint: Think about how you might pick numbers from a list without changing their order.
Give an example of a strictly increasing sequence.
💡 Hint: All the numbers must get bigger as you move along!
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is a subsequence?
💡 Hint: Think about how you can rearrange numbers while keeping some of them in order.
True or False: Every sequence of n distinct numbers contains a strictly increasing subsequence of length n.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens in sequences with positive and negative numbers.
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Challenge Problems
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Given the sequence of numbers 10, 20, 15, 25, 30, 5, find a subsequence that is strictly increasing.
💡 Hint: Look for numbers that ascend without backtracking.
You have a sequence with elements randomly ordered. How would you apply the pigeonhole principle to demonstrate the existence of either an increasing or decreasing subsequence?
💡 Hint: Make a table categorizing your sequences and their potential lengths.
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