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1 MaMaEuSch Maagemet Mathematics for Europea Schools The ew assembly lie of the Car Corp. Silvia Schwarze Horst W. Hamacher 2 MaMaEuSch has bee carried out with the partial support of the Europea Commuity i the framework of the Sokrates programme. The cotet does ot ecessarily reflect the positio of the Europea Commuity, or does it ivolve ay resposibility o the part of the Europea Commuity. Uiversity of Kaiserslauter, Departmet of Mathematics 2 Uiversity of Kaiserslauter, Departmet of Mathematics

2 2 CHAPTER 2: The ew assembly lie of the Car Corp. Keywords from ecoomy - job - work cetre - capacity - assembly lie efficiecy - processig time - assembly lie productio - output - daily output - cycle time Keywords from school mathematics - biomial coefficiet - expoetial growth - factorial - fuctio, fuctio family - equilateral hyperbola - idex shift - combiatory - costat - zero - parameter - Pascal s triagle - permutatio - power set - jump discotiuity - radom sample, ordered/disordered - subset - iversely proportioal - odd fuctio - feasible/optimal solutio Compedium of Chapter 2 The preset chapter describes the plaig processes i the assembly lie productio o the basis of a example from the car idustry. Productio plaig always cotais combiatorial tasks. Thus the first sectio describes the developmet of a combiatorial problem from the ecoomic applicatio. I the followig secod sectio the give problem will be aalyzed mathematically, ew cocepts will be derived. The aalysis will always be close to the ecoomic applicatio. The third sectio goes ito detail o the relatioship betwee biomial coefficiets ad Pascal s triagle. Here i particular techical aspects are of great importace. For the

3 3 iterested reader two mathematical proofs were icluded i this paragraph. The fourth sectio explais briefly the expoetial growth of fuctios. Here agai the coectio betwee theory ad practice is show. Expoetial growth of real-world problems is ofte resposible for difficulties i hadlig these problems ad may cause the failure of solutio algorithms. The fifth sectio the turs agai to the productio plaig. Various techical terms from the field of maufacturig will be itroduced. Operatig figures ad diagrams serve as tools for searchig for a solutio method. I the fial sixth sectio the problem of iteger solutios will be discussed. This makes the give problem more difficult. By usig algorithms oe ca deal with it i the give example ad fid solutios. The process of mathematical modelig is complex ad i practice set backs do occur every ow ad the. The preset chapter will describe this procedure, as far as it is possible i these few words. Startig from the real-world task, the problem will be formalized with well-kow or ewly developed mathematical methods. The solutio methods foud have to be tested agai ad agai by goig back to the applicatio. I doig so weakesses of the modelig may become apparet, possibly ew approaches will be chose. I the ed of the process of modelig there is a solutio that will be preseted to the customer. I reality oe ofte settles for a compromise solutio, also due to the lack of time. This chapter closes with a satisfactory solutio, last but ot least to give the pupils a feelig of success, but it also leaves ope some further questios. 2. A telephoe call at the Car Corp. Although at first glace it does t look like it, but all four colleagues of the Clever Cosultig Team are doig their job. Oliver driks a cup of coffee two ad talks about the latest Star Trek film; while Nadie writes log lists where etries like hazels, brow sugar ad aubergies ca be foud. Sebastia browses olie at a shop for books, CDs ad software ad obviously oly has eyes for the site with the Import-CDs; meawhile Selia discusses the latest sports car models with a car dealer o the phoe. Selia: Well, ow I have leart a lot about the productio at the Car Corp. ad about the plaed productio lie. Nadie: But it souded more as if you wated to buy a ew car. Selia: That s the case! A blue sports car! I started to chat a bit with the car dealer. Coicidetally the productio maager of the Car Corp. was just visitig him. So I have come to kow that soo a ew sports car model will be produced, for which the Car Corp. plas to start up a ew assembly lie. Of course I have metioed that we are experts i the area of productio plaig. Nadie: We are what? Selia: Well, do t be worried! We re ot that igorat; remember the cooperatio with the compay SchokoLeb. Furthermore we ve always become acquaited with ew topics very quickly. Ayway it was worth doig to show off a bit, because i the ed the productio maager himself talk to me o the phoe! Sebastia: Did he tell you iteral iformatio? That s certaily importat iformatio that you do t tell everybody. You could have worked for a competitor! Selia: Well, I had to persuade the productio maager a bit. I told him who we are ad which projects we ve already doe. It did reassure him to hear that we ve successfully worked together with other compaies i the past. I offered him that we re goig to prepare a cocept for the plaig of the assembly lie. Nadie: Of course without commitmet for him, I suppose?

4 4 Selia: There was o other way to covice him. But this is a big chace. If the Car Corp. is satisfied with our work, they ll surely let us do further projects, ad you caot image all the thigs that have to be plaed! Oliver: Now tell us somethig about the ew assembly lie! Selia tells her colleagues i detail about the telephoe call with Mister Wieder, the productio maager of the Car Corp.. The compay plas to start up a ew moder assembly lie. A ew sports car model will be produced. The productio of a car is divided ito eleve stages, so-called jobs. The Car Corp. kows how log the sigle jobs take o the machies. This time spa is called the processig time of the job. All jobs are processed alog a assembly lie, this meas that alog the assembly lie there are statios where the jobs are executed. Nadie: I see, so for the eleve jobs there are also eleve statios i the assembly lie. Selia: No, it is t that easy. Some of the jobs take log, others are very short. The assembly lie has to stop at every statio ad ca t move o before all statios have fiished their work. The egieers vo Car Corp. call this the die cycle time of the assembly lie. Here we will leave the discussio at Clever Cosultig ad have a closer look at what was discussed. There are eleve jobs that have to be processed cosecutively: Figure 2. Eleve jobs are ecessary for the productio of the sports car. The legth of the blocks shows the processig time of the jobs If there is build oe statio i the assembly lie for each job, the eleve sports cars could be (o/)i (auf) the assembly lie at the same time, oe at each statio. The assembly lie stops at the statios ad moves o whe all statios have completed their work. This would mea that the cycle time would be as log as the processig time of the logest job. Selia has realized right away that this is ot a very good idea. Some of the jobs are very short, e.g. job 3. I the associated statio the work would be completed much faster tha at job 8. Thus the statio would ot be workig at high capacity, the worker i/at this statio would have a log idle time betwee two productio/workig processes. The maagemet of course does ot like it at all. O the oe had the worker ad the machie cost a lot of moey, both should ot be idle. O the other had it would also be very ufair if the worker i/at statio 3 has a rest all the time, while umber 8 has to work o-stop. It is easy to uderstad that this is ot a good solutio. But what ca be doe to overcome this? Ofte the obvious solutio is also the best: Statios that are workig at low capacity are simply used for further jobs. The aim is that the work is shared equitably by the statios.

5 5 But is it geerally possible to coceptualize the otio of equitably i a mathematical way? To resolve this it is importat to thik about what is meat by a equitable allocatio. I everyday laguage equitably meas that everyoe is etitled to get the same. It does ot matter whether it is a equal sized slice of the cake or the same amout of workload. So i our case a equal distributio of the jobs to the statios would be desirable. The o statio would have to wait for aother oe to fiish. The statios would be workig at higher capacity ad the cycle time would be short. Now we will joi the discussio at Clever Cosultig agai. Oliver: O.K., I ve got that, we have to arrage the jobs, preferably i such a way that the processig times of the sigle statios are of equal legth ( E.2.). The of course the umber of statios will be smaller tha eleve. So how may statios do we eed? Selia: Well, that s exactly what the Car Corp. wats to kow from us! Nadie: Stop! That s oce agai too fast for me! Is it i geeral always possible that the jobs are arraged i such a way that all statios work at the same capacity? Sebastia: Well, let me thik. It s ot that easy to see with eleve jobs. We d have to check quite some possibilities. Let s cosider a easier example istead: If we just had two productio processes, let s say oe with two hours ad the other oe with three hours of processig time, the it is t possible that the two statios work at the same capacity! Statio Statio 2 Oliver: Uless we set up just oe statio that cotais both jobs ad requires five hours of processig time. Nadie: All right, that s the easy way to do it. If we set up oly oe statio with all jobs, the there will be o idle time at the statios. But that s ot a good solutio. I this case we would have just oe car i the whole assembly lie. Oliver: This would the rather be a stagat belt tha a coveyor belt... Sebastia: So except for the simple solutio where oly oe statio is set up there does t have to be a solutio where all statios work at the same capacity. Thus we should look for a solutio where the statios work at a capacity that is as high as possible. All four agree o this poit. Later they have to thik about what as high as possible exactly meas ad how it ca be expressed mathematically. I the course of the discussio Selia tells her colleagues aother importat detail: Selia: Sice for example the car ca t be varished util the car body is welt together, it is ecessary to sort the sigle jobs. Thus the order of the jobs for the sport car is determied by techical requiremets. So at least we do t have to worry about that, because this sortig was already made by the Egieerig Departmet of the Car Corp..

6 6 Oliver: Do t these requiremets make it much more difficult for us? After all we have to be very careful i our plaig that that we do t chage this order. Sebastia: No, far from it! It will be easier for us, sice if the productio sequece was t specified, we would have to aalyze all possible orders fid to the best oe. The there would be may more cases that we have to aalyze. So we should be happy about it ( E.2.2). Exercises E.2. Arrage the followig processig times i two differet ways by keepig the order, such that all statios work at the same capacity: 3, 4, 5, 2, 7, 5,,. Please ote: Whe you have foud a solutio, you should have a close look at it. E.2.2 Arrage the followig processig times i at least two differet ways, such that all statios work at the same capacity. The umber of statios ca be chose arbitrarily. I cotrast to exercise E.2. the order of the jobs may be chaged. Processig times:,, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, How much is much? Oliver: So how may possibilities of arragemets do exist? Let s assume that it s a maageable amout, the we could write a computer program that goes through all possibilities ad returs the best solutio as output. Selia: Oh o, we ow have to write dow all possibilities ad cout? Cout me out! Nadie: No, of course ot. It must somehow be possible to work it out logically. Ad if we do it this way, we oly kow the solutio to our problem with eleve jobs. It would be ice if we could calculate a solutio for ay possible umber of jobs, this meas depedig o a umber that represets the umber of jobs. Oliver: I thik the best is to sketch the jobs. Whe we have the problem o paper, it s easier to come up with a idea how to solve it. Nadie: All right, here s some scribblig paper! Here you go! Nadie: Whe we ow do a divisio ito statios, the order has to remai uchaged, right? Sebastia: That s it. Nadie: Good, i.e. we ca build statios here o the paper by drawig lies betwee the jobs. That s quick ad we do t have to write dow the umbers over ad over agai. I ca build for example three statios by drawig two lies:

7 Nadie: At radom I ve built the statios [, 2], [3, 4, 5, 6] ad [7, 8, 9, 0, ]. Whether this is a good solutio or ot does t matter for ow. We just wat to see how may possibilities there are to build the statios. Sebastia: Now we just have to fid out how may possibilities there are to put two lies betwee the jobs. The we kow how may possibilities there are to divide the jobs ito three statios. ( E.2.3). Oliver: Exactly! A excellet idea! We do it for all possible umbers of statios, that s from oe to eleve, ad the we re doe! How may possibilities do exist to place two lies? Sebastia: I have a fait recollectio of a formula that we ve used at uiversity. You ca use it to calculate how may possibilities there are to take k elemets from a set of. Nadie: Ah, I thik I kow what you mea. It was called choose k ad had to do somethig with radom samples. It was also importat that the order of the chose elemets is irrelevat. Selia: Thus i our case we would have to calculate 2 over 0, the umber of possibilities to select two lies out of te possibilities. Sebastia gets his old compedium of formulas to look up the exact defiitio. I the meatime we ll cocetrate o the defiitio of choose k : We cosider the followig questio: How may possibilities do exist to build a k-elemet subset from a -elemet set if the order withi the subset is irrelevat ad if it is ot allowed to use the elemets more tha oce? Figure 2.2 illustrates this procedure with k = 6 ad = Figure 2.2 Six elemets are take from 8 elemets without cosiderig the order of the draw ad without repetitios

8 8 Disordered samples without replacemet The umber of possibilities to draw a disordered sample of k elemets from elemets without replacemet is: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) 2 2! = =. k k k 2 2 k k 2 k! ( k)! k reads as choose k. This term is a commo abbreviatio for the k formula show above. This value is also called Biomial coefficiet. What do the exclamatio marks i the biomial coefficiet mea?!, factorial of, is a commo abbreviatio for the product of the umbers from to. Thus it holds:! = 2 3 ( 2) ( ). It reads as factorial. The otio of factorial i oly defied for oegative atural umbers. For = 0 it holds: 0! =. For oe does ot hurt oe s figers from typig to calculate the factorial especially for large, may calculators have this fuctio as a feature. Why is the biomial coefficiet defied i such a way? First we wat to fid out how may possibilities there are to draw k elemets from elemets if the order of the draw is importat. Thus we aalyze the umber of ordered samples. This meas that e.g. the combiatios, 2, 3 ad 2, 3, are distiguishable ad have to be couted separately. For the first draw there exist possibilities, sice each of the elemets ca be draw. For the secod draw elemets are still available. So there are - possibilities. With each further draw the umber of available elemets ad thus the umber of possibilities is reduced by oe. For the k th draw there is still a choice of k + possibilities. The umber of possibilities that ca occur with k moves? results from the multiplicatio of the umber of possibilities for the sigle moves?. This meas that the umber of possibilities to select k from elemets with cosiderig the order is ( ) ( 2) ( ) k + k +.

9 9 Whe coutig the possibilities for a ordered sample, oe obtais a much higher value tha for a disordered sample, sice the order is relevat ad thus all possibilities to arrage the chose elemets are couted. A set of k elemets ca be arraged i k! differet ways, they are called permutatios. This ca be easily see if you imagie that from a set of k elemets all elemets, that is k, are take ad the order of the draw is relevat. Accordig to the umber formula developed above there exist ( ) k k 2 = k! possibilities. By drawig with cosiderig the order we have couted each disordered sample k! times. Thus the biomial coefficiet is ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) k + k + k k 2! = = = k k 2 k! k k 2 k! k! k ( E.2.4). I the meatime Sebastia has foud the otes about the biomial coefficiet i his documets. The four colleagues ow try to fid out if the biomial coefficiet is suitable for their problem. Sebastia: Well, we have te positios where we ca draw the lies. I wat to put two lies. This meas, I choose two from the te positios. That s the same as if I d build a disordered sample with 2 elemets without replacemet. Without replacemet because aturally oly oe lie ca be draw i each positio, thus each positio ca appear just oce i the sample. Selia: Yes, but why disordered? We ve just said that the order of the jobs is importat ad ow suddely it is t ay more? I do t get it! Sebastia: Disordered just meas that it does t matter whether a subset is called [, 2, 3] or [2,, 3]. I this cotext it s uimportat whether I choose the secod ad sixth positio for the lies or the sixth ad the secod. Do you uderstad what I mea? Selia: I guess I have to thik it over oce agai. But for ow go ahead. Nadie: I ll ow compute with my calculator how may possibilities there are for two lies. While Nadie types the umbers i the calculator, we also have a look at the calculatio. 0 0! 0! = = 45 2 = = = 2! (0 2)! 2! 8! Nadie: There are 45 differet possibilities to put two lies i? te places. Oliver: Or i other words: There are 45 possibilities to build three statios from eleve jobs ( E.2.5). Selia: I m impressed. It s as simple as that. Ok, ad we have to do this te times ad add up the results? Sebastia: We eve have to do it eleve times! There ca be draw zero to te lies! That s eleve calculatios. Selia: What? You drive me crazy with your ideas. What does it mea to draw zero lies? That s osese!

10 0 Sebastia: No, thik about it! Zero lies meas that you do t divide, thus you build oly oe statio. It the must cotai all jobs ad there s just oe possibility to set up. Nevertheless you have to iclude this possibility. Nadie: Okay, slowly. We should better write this as a formula, otherwise I ll loose the overview. We have jobs ad wat to build k statios, correct? Selia: Correct. Nadie: Good, let s go o. I eed k lies to build k statios. I ca put them i positios. So I calculate choose k. Meawhile Nadie has put the followig formula dow o paper:... umber of jobs k... umber of statios The umber of possibilities to build k statios is k. Nadie: Ad ow we combie of these biomial coefficiets. We have to calculate this value for k = to k = ad add up. The first summad is for k =, this meas for build oe statio, ad for draw zero lies respectively. The secod summad is for build two statios ad so o. Number of possibilities to build statios for jobs: Selia: Your sum looks good! But do t you have to type a lot i the calculator till you get the solutio. It would t surprise me if I type it wrog all the time ( E.2.6). Sebastia: There s certaily more i my otes from uiversity. Sometimes it s possible to simplify such formulas, maybe I fid somethig. Oliver: Ayway, for today I ve see eough biomial coefficiets. I ll go home ow. Selia: Good idea. See you tomorrow! While the experts from Clever Cosultig start to make their way home, we will have a closer look at if oe really ca simplify this sum.

11 Exercises E.2.3 How may possibilities do exist to build four statios from seve jobs? Represet all statios by lies betwee umbers. E.2.4 The set {, 2, 3, 4, 5} is give. a) Build all ordered samples 3 from 5. How may do exist? b) Now build all possibilities for a ordered sample 3 from 3. How may do exist? c) Build all disordered samples 3 from 5. How may do exist? Hit: Do t build ew i b) ad c), but choose cleverly from a). d) Calculate the umber of disordered samples 3 from 5 as quotiet of the results from a) ad b) ad by the use of the biomial coefficiet. E.2.5.a) Check your results from E.X.3 by usig the biomial coefficiet. b) Calculate the followig biomial coefficiets: ,,,,,,,,, E.2.6 How may possibilities do exist to build statio from seve jobs (this is from oe to seve statios)? 2.3 Biomial coefficiets ad Pascal s Triagle Pascal s Triagle To become acquaited with the biomial coefficiet, we go back a log way i the history of mathematics. We take a look back ito the 7th cetury, whe i Frace the mathematicia, theologia ad philosopher Blaise Pascal ( ) lived. The so called Pascal s Triagle is ascribed to him. We ll ow have a closer look at it Figure 2.3 Pascal s Triagle The figure above shows Pascal s Triagle. What is remarkable about this triagle? Well, first of all it is symmetrical about a vertical axis of reflectio. Furthermore the left ad the right side of the pyramid are lied with oes. Whe you have a closer look at it, you will perhaps otice that

12 2 directly below the oes, alog the sides, the sequece of atural umbers shows up, this is, 2, 3, 4,.... How ca you build this triagle ad what is there to it? Pascal s Triagle is i fact geerated by usig a calculatio rule ad you ca exted it by arbitrarily may umbers. The calculatio rule is: Each etry i the triagle comes from the sum of the etries that are i the previous row diagoally above the etry. To illustrate this, the calculatio rule is show i a example ad is the preseted as a mathematical otatio = 3+ 3 Figure 2.4 Example of the calculatio rule for Pascal s Triagle Furthermore it must be poited out that the umberig of the rows ad row elemets i Pascal s Triagle all begi with zero. As you ca see, the secod elemet of the fourth row comes from addig the two elemets that are writte directly above. For the calculatio of the zeroth ad the last elemet of each row you imagie that there is a zero i the empty place above. So the first mystery is already solved: at the sides of the triagle oly oes ca occur, because for these elemets it always results i: + 0 = ( E.2.7) Figure 2.5 Calculatio of the side elemets i Pascal s Triagle As aouced, here is the mathematical otatio of the calculatio rule: Calculatio rule for the geeratio of Pascal s Triagle Let d k be the k th elemet i the th row of the triagle. The it holds: d = d + d d k, k, k 00 0 = d = ; d = for all. ( E.2.8) The secod costrait of this formulatio is eeded to iitialize the triagle, i.e. to eable the triagle to start. Equally the two costraits i the third row are required for the iitializatio of the sigle rows. These three coditios are ecessary, because otherwise the

13 3 calculatio rule would access elemets that do ot exist. For the formulatio above it is importat to keep i mid that the coutig of the rows ad row elemets each? start with zero. What does Pascal s Triagle have to do with the biomial coefficiets? The special thig about Pascal s Triagle is: Each elemet i the triagle is a biomial coefficiet! The elemet d k has the value of the biomial coefficiet choose k. It is possible to write Pascal s Triagle i the followig form: Figure 2.6 Pascal s Triagle with biomial coefficiets Thus a arbitrary th row of Pascal s Triagle ca be writte i the followig way:. 0 k k k + ( E.2.9+0) That the elemets i Pascal s Triagle d k do really correspod to the biomial coefficiet choose k, we ca check for the first row of Pascal s Triagle without ay problems. But this is ot a proof of the geeral validity of our discovery. To show this, it has to be prove that the biomial coefficiets satisfy the calculatio rules for Pascal s Triagle. For the iterested reader the proof is show i the followig digressio. Exercises E.2.7 Pascal s Triagle cotais alog the sides directly below the oes the sequece of atural umbers. How ca this be explaied? Does this observatio hold for all Pascal s Triagles (with arbitrarily may rows)? E.2.8 Geerate the zeroth to teth row of Pascal s Triagle. E.2.9 Geerate the 3 th row of Pascal s Triagle by usig the biomial coefficiets. E.2.0 Calculate the followig elemets Pascal s Triagle: d,2, d,4, d,7, d 2,3, d 2,5 ad d 2,8.

14 4 Proof*: Biomial coefficiets geerate Pascal s Triagle We wat to show that the calculatio rule for Pascal s Triagle geerates biomial coefficiets choose k. Or i other words, that the biomial coefficiets satisfy the calculatio rule for Pascal s Triagle. First of all we repeat the calculatio rule for Pascal s Triagle. d = d + d d k, k, k 00 0 ( ) ( ) ( ) = 2 d = ; d = for all 3 Let us start with the easiest rule, amely with (2). That this is satisfied by the biomial coefficiet, we show by pluggig i the values. 0 0! 0 = = = d 0 0! (0 0)! 0 = Now for rule (3): We have to show that choose 0 ad choose are both oe for ay arbitrary :!!! = = = = for all d0 0 0! ( 0 )!!! 0 =,!!!! = = = = = for all d! ( )!! 0!!! =. Agai we were very successful by pluggig i the values ad calculatig the biomial coefficiets. A bit more arithmetic is eeded to check coditio (). We have to show that the followig equatio holds: or i detail: ( ) = + k k k ( ) ( ) (( ) ( )) 00 ( ) (( ) )!!! = +. k! k! k! k! k! k! We start with the right-had side of the equatio ad try to obtai the left-had side by trasformatios. + = k k (! ) (! ) + = ( k! ) ( ( ) ( k ))! ( k)! ( ( ) k)! ( ) ( 2) ( k + ) ( k) ( k ) ( ) ( 2) ( k ) ( k ) + ( k! ) ( k) ( k ) 2 k! ( k ) 2 2 2

15 5 So far oly the fractios have bee trasformed ad the factorials have bee writte i detail. This was doe i order to see where the fractio ca be reduced. The red terms cacel out ad the fractio is reduced to: ( ) ( ) ( ) ( k ) ( ) ( ) ( ) 2 k + 2 k +.! k! I the ext step we covert the fractios by expasio to the same deomiators i order to do the additio, sice fially i the ed oly oe factorial should be remaiig. ( ) ( 2) ( k + ) k ( ) ( 2) ( k) ( k )!k k! ( ) ( 2) ( k + ) k + ( ) ( 2) ( k ) k! + = Now we ca see that the summads i the umerator cotai the same terms. Thus these ca be factored out. ( ) ( 2) ( k + ) k + ( ) ( 2) ( k + ) ( k) ( ) ( k ) [ k k] + + k! k ( ) ( + ) k! k! = Now we are ot wide of the mark ay more. Expasio of the fractio leads to the desired goal: ( ) ( ) k! ( k) ( k) k + 2 = 2.! = + = k! ( k)! k k k k With the validatio of the last of the three calculatio rules we ca termiate our proof. = Simplified calculatio of the biomial coefficiets We have show the coectio betwee Pascal s Triagle ad the biomial coefficiets choose k. But what did we lear from this relatioship? O the oe had, we kow that biomial coefficiets ca be geerated quite simply with the help of Pascal s Triagle. Whe the th row of Pascal s Triagle is kow, the (+) th row ca be calculated by simple additio. This computatio could be easily doe o a sheet of paper or eve worked out i oe s head. O the other had, the origial computatio of the biomial coefficiets leads to multiplicatios with huge umbers, where ormally the calculator is eeded ( E.2.). The symmetry of Pascal s Triagle Aother characteristic of Pascal s Triagle ca be utilized: the symmetry. As we kow, Pascal s Triagle is symmetrical about the vertical axis. This meas, it holds: dk d, k =.

16 6 Or by usig the biomial coefficiets: = k k. This property of the biomial coefficiets becomes clear whe we have a look at a example from everyday life: If you have to choose two from five ew CDs, because you ca oly afford to buy two of them, the this is the same as if you choose the three oes that you are ot goig to buy: = = Relatively easy, by pluggig i ad trasformig, oe ca show that this rule for biomial coefficiets is right: ( E.2.2) Sums of biomial coefficiets!!! = = = =. k k! k! k! k! k! k! k ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ( )) We wat to get oe fial beefit from Pascal s triagle, sice for us this will be the most iterestig poit. I the last discussio of Clever Cosultig Selia was ot very happy with the followig formula: If you do ot have a moder calculator that provides the sum fuctio, you have to compute each sum separately ad you might easily type i the wrog umbers. So it would be ice if we foud a possibility to simplify this sum. Let us cosider oce agai the elemets i a arbitrary th row of Pascal s Triagle:. 0 k k k + The biomial coefficiets i these rows are redolet to the summads above. The differece: has bee replaced by. Thus the summads i our formula correspod to the elemets of the ( ) th row of Pascal s Triagle. Nevertheless, let us cosider the th row. What holds for this row ca be trasferred to the ( ) th row, as log as >. We are iterested i the sums of the elemets of a arbitrary th row of Pascal s Triagle. The best is we first of all cosider the first rows as a example: Sum of row etries

17 7 Somethig is remarkable here: The sum of the etries i the rows is doubled from row to row! Ca we already derive a geeral rule from this observatio? No, sice the observatio could hold for the cosidered example oly, we have to prove the property for the geeral case. So let us thik about what the reaso for the doublig of the sums of the rows might be ad have a closer look at the geeratio of Pascal s triagle. I the followig row = 4 is geerated from row = 3: = = = 3 + Oe ca see that each etry from the upper row appears exactly twice as summad (ad as separate etry at the sides respectively). This behavior ca be recostructed for arbitrary rows. Sice each etry from the previous row appears twice i the followig row, as summad or as separate etry, the sum of the etries i the row is doubled from oe row to the ext. Aybody who is iterested i a proof of this behavior is ivited to study the proof at the ed of this chapter. Let us deote sum of the etries i the th row with RS, where RS = d 0 + d d,- + d. We kow the sum of the etries i row zero, it holds: ZS 0 =. There is o eed to kow the sum of the etries i the first row, we ca calculate it: RS = RS0 2= 2= 2. The sum of the etries i the third row is calculated i a aalogous maer: The for the th row it holds: RS = RS 2= RS 2 2= 2 2= RS = RS 2 = RS 2 2 = RS 2 = 2 for. 0 0 But what about the zeroth row? 2 0 = = RS 0. So this rule also holds for the zeros row ad thus i geeral: RS = d + d d, + d = 2 for 0. So the reductio of the sum formula was successful.

18 8 It holds: Sum of row etries Row 0 0 = 2 Row 2 0 = 2 = 2 2= 2 Row = 2 2= 2 2= 2 Row = 4 2= 2 2= 2 Row = 8 2= 2 2= 2 Row = 6 2 = 2 2 = 2 Row = = 2 0 k. ( E.2.3) Let us go back oce agai to the origial meaig of the biomial coefficiet. The umber of possibilities to build a k-elemet subset from a -elemet set is choose k. What do we get if we calculate this term for all possible k from zero to ad the sum up? Well, the we have build 0-elemet, -elemet, 2-elemet ad so o util -elemet subsets, i.e. i every possible size. So 2 is the umber of all subsets that ca be build from a -elemet set. The set of all subsets is called power set. The power set has 2 elemets. Example: The set {, 2, 3, 4} has four elemets. Thus 2 4 = 6 subsets ca be build: ( E.2.4) 4 4! = = 0 0! 4! 0-elemet (empty set) 4 4! = = 4! 3! -elemet {}, {2}, {3}, {4} 4 4! = = 6 2-elemet 2 2! 2! {, 2}, {, 3}, {,4}, {2, 3}, {2, 4}, {3, 4} 4 4! = = 4 3 3!! 3-elemet {, 2, 3}, {, 2, 4}, {, 3, 4}, {2, 3, 4} 4 4! = = 4 4! 0! 4-elemet {, 2, 3, 4}

19 9 Exercises E.2. The 7 th row of Pascal s Triagle is: Calculate the 8 th row of Pascal s Triagle without usig a calculator ad by applyig additio oly. Check your results for the elemets d 8,4, d 8,3, d 8, ad d 8,8 with the aid of the calculator, by computig the biomial coefficiets. E.2.2 Which of the followig equatios ad iequalities are right, which are wrog? =, =,, =,,, =, =, =,,, =, ,,, =, =, =, ,, =,,, = E.2.3 Check the solutio from E.2.5. I additio, give the sum of all elemets i the 0 th ad 3 th row of Pascal Triagle. E.2.4 Complete the followig table of subsets for the set {,2,3,4,5}: Number of subsets Number of elemets per subset Subset(s) 5 5! = = 0-elemet (empty set) 0 0! 5!

20 Proof*: The sums of the etries i the rows of Pascal s Triagle are doubled 20 I this short digressio it will be show that the sums of the etries i the rows of Pascal s Triagle are doubled from oe row to the ext. To begi with we write dow the sum of the etries i the th row: d + d + + d + d = d. 0, k k = 0 From the calculatio rule for Pascal s Triagle we kow that d k ca be calculated from the elemets of the previous row: d k =d -,k- +d -,k. We plug i this equatio ad take accout of the special cases d 0 ad d : ( ) d = d + d + d + d k 0, k, k k= 0 k= The sum ca be divided ito two sums, for d 0 ad d we plug i the correspodig values. + d = + d + d k, k, k k= 0 k= k= Let us ow have a look at the sums. The secod sum almost looks like the sum of the etries i the ( - ) th row. The differece: It starts with k =, while the metioed sum of the etries i the row starts with k = 0. The first summad d -,0 is missig. Sice it has the value oe, we simply use oe of the two oes i the sum. We iclude this oe as d -,0 i the secod sum ad so we get the sum of the etries i the ( ) th row. d = + d + d k, k, k k= 0 k= k= 0 I priciple, the same happes with the first sum. But i the first sum the idex k i d -,k- is disturbig. I order to chage this, we use a trick that is used i mathematics every ow ad the i calculatios: the idex shift. We itroduce a ew idex r. For r it holds: r = k. This meas that k ca be replaced by r +. I the followig calculatio the effect ca be see. The the remaiig oe is icluded i the sum as d -,- i order to complete it. 2 d = d + d + d k,, r, k k= 0 r=0 k= 0 d + d = 2 d, r, k, k r= 0 k= 0 k= 0 d = 2 d k,, k k= 0 k= 0 By trasformatios we have obtaied the required result. =. 2.4 Expoetial growth The ext morig Clever Cosultig meets up agai to cotiue to work o the problem of the Car Corp.. But oe of the colleagues looks very tired. Nadie: Gosh Sebastia! What s wrog with you? Did you party all ight?

21 2 Oliver: Come off it! Not our workaholic! Probably you ve bee sittig over your books all ight, right? Sebastia: Oh, leave me aloe. You d better be glad that at least someoe shows dedicatio! Yesterday I ve bee diggig aroud i my otes from ui. Oliver: That was clear! Sebastia: Ad I ve foud out somethig! We ca simplify our sum formula of yesterday very well. Selia: Really? Show me! Sebastia: No, first of all I ll get a coffee, the you may apologize icely ad maybe the I ll tell you about my results. So Sebastia discovered the same simplificatio that we have developed i detail i the last chapters. After two cups of coffee ad beig i better spirits Sebastia explais what he foud out about the biomial coefficiets. Sebastia: So, ad we ca use this simplificatio of the sum formula for our yesterday s result. Nadie, do you have the otes of yesterday with you? Havig a quick look i her bag, Nadie puts a sheet of paper with the followig formula o the table: Sebastia: You see? Here we build the sum of the elemets i the ( ) th row, this meas our sum is 2 -. The umber of possibilities to combie jobs, whose order is give, ito statios is: = ( E.2.5) Oliver: All right, this meas we d have to examie 2 0 cases fro the Car Corp.. Could you type it i your i your calculator? Nadie: Already doe: 024 possibilities. Oliver: Well, that s still ok. We ca write a program for the computer ad the it calculates all possibilities. Further o it should show those possibilities, where the statios work at almost the same capacity. Nadie: Well, that souds pretty simple. But the umber of possibilities growths rapidly, does t it? If we had 20 jobs, the there d be possibilities. Ad with 00 jobs there d be... oh, my calculator ca t display the umber completely, there d be 6,338*0 29 possibilities! That s a 30- digits umber!

22 22 The eormous growth that the four colleagues observed is called expoetial growth. The otio refers to the fact that i 2 - the variable appears i the expoet. There it accelerates the growth eormously. Let us compare the results for = 0, = 20, = 00 ad = ,33825* ,03469*0 59 A doublig from = 0 to = 20 results i a 024-times higher value of 2 -. A doublig from = 00 to = 200 results i a.26765*0 30 -times higher value of 2 -. Thus the value of 2 - grows very much faster tha the variable Figure 2.8 Fuctio y = 2 - I figure 2.8 oe ca see very clearly that 2 - does ot oly grow with, but also that this growths accelerates with icreasig. Such tasks quickly reach a size where they ca o loger be hadled by usig eve the latest computer techology. The the umber of possibilities is so large that those caot be calculated i appropriate time. Today oe comes across similar tasks whe tryig to decipher codes, for example. But i those cases oe is glad that these tasks have ot bee solved yet, sice otherwise the ecryptio systems, like they are used for credit cards or iteret coectios, would ot provide security ay more. Oliver: O.K. The size of the task grows rapidly. But evertheless we ca cope with the 024 possibilities for the Car Corp.. Sebastia: That might be the case, but I do t like it. There must be a more effective procedure tha calculatig all possible solutios? I mea, the Car Corp. surely would have hit o it as well! Nadie: Well, maybe we should summarize everythig we kow so far, as which values are give ad which have to be calculated. Nadie writes the followig list o a scribblig paper:

23 23 Give: Number of jobs: Idex of the job: i, i=... Processig time of job i: p i Ukow: Number of statios: k, with idex of the statio j Processig time of statio j: s j Cycle time: C Assigmet: jobs to statios Sebastia: The cycle time C is ot kow, but we kow at least that it is as log as the logest processig time of the statios. C = max s j=,, k j Selia: What does this otatio mea? The max with the j udereath? Sebastia: It s ot very difficult. It meas that amog all existig s j, amely from j = to j = k, the oe with the maximum value is chose. Selia: Ah, o.k. I ll keep that i mid ( E.2.6). Nadie: I thik we should defie a variable that measures the variatio from full capacity, so that we ca decide which solutio is appropriate. Oliver: That s a poit we have to discuss with the maagers of the Car Corp.. How do we kow which solutio they thik is appropriate? O.K., the capacity should be as high as possible, the best is full capacity. But this ca t always be achieved. Is it better if the the idle time of all statios together is as small as possible, so that expeses are saved? Or is it more importat that the idle time is divided as equal as possible betwee the sigle statios, so that o worker feels treated ufairly? These are two differet poits of view ad certaily there are eve more. Oliver poited out a very importat issue: The defiitio of a goal. What do Clever Cosultig ad the Car Corp. wat to achieve? Terms like the capacity should be as high as possible are ot precise eough. So Selia made a appoitmet at the Car Corp. to discuss this poit. Of course she does ot wat to miss the chace to see the productio of the sports car o site!

24 24 Exercises E.2.5 How may possibilities do exist to combie 3, 8, 3, 5 or 20 jobs, whose order is give, ito statios? E.2.6 Please specify max m for the followig sets M with elemets m i : i=,, k i a) M = {, 2, 3, 4} with k = 4 b) M = {4, 6, -3, -0, 3} with k = 5 c) M = {8, -20, 46, 43} with k = 4 d) M = {8, 3, -60, 4, 0} with k = 5 e) M = {4, 9, 243, 34} with k = 4 f) M = {8,-200, 34, 9} with k = Assembly lies workig to full capacity ad the assembly lie efficiecy Oe week later the team of Clever Cosultig arrives at the productio halls of the Car Corp.. There is a hustle ad bustle of activity. At the delivery etrace some trucks got stuck, people gesticulate wildly ad seem to be very excited. Obviously some suppliers did queue i the wrog place ad mixed up the elaborate system of just-i-time deliveries. Is this also a optimizatio problem for Clever Cosultig? Eve before the four colleagues fid the time to thik about it, Herr Wieder arrives. Mr. Wieder: Good afteroo! You must be the team of Clever Cosultig. It s ice to have you here. Ad who s the lady I ve talked to o the phoe? Selia: Good afteroo, Mr. Wieder. My ame is Selia Malik. Thak you very much for the ivitatio. Mr. Wieder: Do you wish to go for a short tour to see the productio facilities before we go to my office? Sebastia: That s fie! It s always better to actually see what we ve bee talkig about. Selia: Ad I ca fid out which sports car model is the right oe for me. Nadie: How may cars do you produce per day o a average? Mr. Wieder: It depeds o the order situatio, but the assembly lie should make aroud 20 uits, that s the daily output. O the tour Mr. Wieder explais how the productio process works. Obviously Mr. Wieder is very proud that the productio rus like a clockwork. He explais that a breakdow at ay statio of the lie ca of course paralyze the complete assembly lie. Such failures are a expesive problem for the Car Corp., sice the the machies ad workers caot work productively. Thus at ay time there are egieers o site, who ca take appropriate actios i case of a failure. As the group arrives at the ed of the productio street, a brad ew blue sports car i the luxury versio leaves the assembly lie. Selia: Oh! That s exactly the oe that I wat! Mr. Wieder, I thik I kow how you could pay for our service. Mr. Wieder: Well, let s talk about that at the ed of your work. But for this sports car model you ll probably have to optimize further processes. Oliver: It was a good idea to see the productio o site. Thak you very much for the tour, Mr. Wieder.

25 25 Mr. Wieder: You re welcome. You really seem to tackle this problem seriously. I m curious to see your results. If you ca help us, we could talk to the busiess maagemet about a cosultig cotract betwee Clever Cosultig ad the Car Corp.. I thik we ll fid some more tasks for your compay. I the meatime I ve talked with our process egieers about the aims. They use the so-called assembly lie efficiecy as a measure for the utilizatio. The assembly lie efficiecy is the ratio betwee the sum of the processig times ad the product of cycle time ad umber of statios. I the meatime, the group arrived at Mr. Wieder s office. While he talks, Mr. Wieder writes the followig formula o a flipchart: ALE = p + p + + p + p C k 2 Assembly lie efficiecy:. Herr Wieder: The assembly lie efficiecy shows the utilizatio of the lie, it should be as high as possible. The best is if you have a close look at it without ruffle. I do t wat to throw you out, but I ve a importat appoitmet ow. Nadie: Ok, we do t wat to hold you up ay loger, thak you very much for your support. Herr Wieder: Oh, ad before I forget about it: Our egieer gave me a list of the processig times. It s for you, you ll eed the figures to get started. The uits of the values are miutes. p = 8 p 2 = 5 p 3 = p 4 = 3 p 5 = 7 p 6 = 4 p 7 = 2 p 8 = 9 p 9 = 2 p 0 = 5 p = 7 Impressed by the huge productio site ad ready to start their work, the Clever Cosultig team sets off to its office. Oliver: Did you uderstad the formula? I did t. Nadie: The best is if we plug i the values that we do already have. Those are the productio times i the umerator: p+ p2 + + p + p = = 53. The sum of the processig times is 53 miutes. Thus for the assembly lie efficiecy it holds: 53 ALE =. C k But we either kow the cycle time C or the umber of statios k. Let s choose a arbitrary divisio of jobs ito statios to simplify matters. The we ca determie the resultig assembly lie efficiecy. Nadie is o the right track. A example, eve a desiged oe, ofte helps to achieve a better uderstadig of mathematical terms.

26 26 Example: Give is the divisio of the jobs ito three statios: [, 2, 3, 4] [5, 6, 7] [8, 9, 0, ]; k = 3. From this we ca compute: - Processig time of the statios s = p + p + p + p = 7; s = p + p + p = 3; s = p + p + p + p = Cycle time - Assembly lie efficiecy { } { } C = max s, s, s = max 7,3,23 = ALE = 0,768 C = k 23 3 = 69. The assembly lie efficiecy is 0,768 ( E.2.7). Havig a look at the processig times of the statios, you ca see that this is ot a very good value. Statio 3 is workig at very high capacity. There the workig takes 23 miutes. This statio determies the legth of the cycle time. I cotrast, statio 2 oly has to work for 3 miutes ad the waits te miutes for the ed of the cycle time. The efficiecy of the statios is listed i the diagram below. Statio 3 Statio 2 Statio Bearbeitugsdauer [Miute] Figure 2.9 Diagram of the utilizatio of the statios The diagram shows the time sequece of a productio process. Here you ca see explicitly that statio 3 is very heavily used. We obtai a better solutio, if we move job 8 from statio 3 to statio 2, for example. - Divisio ito statios: [, 2, 3, 4] [5, 6, 7, 8] [ 9, 0, ] - Processig time of the statios s = p + p + p + p = 7; s = p + p + p + b = 22; s = p + p + p = Cycle time { } { } C = max s, s, s = max 7,22,4 =

27 27 - Assembly lie efficiecy ALE = 0,803 T = k 22 3 = 66. Statio 3 Statio 2 Statio Bearbeitugsdauer [Miute] Figure 2.0 Diagram after shiftig job 8 ( E.2.8) The cycle time was shorteed by oe miute. The assembly lie efficiecy did icrease to 0,803. The efficiecy of the machies did improve. Of course this is a success. Nevertheless we do ot kow if this is the best solutio to the problem. The possibilities of fidig ew solutios is ot oly limited to the shiftig of jobs. The umber of statios ca be modified as well. The umber of the statios was chose arbitrarily i the example. Mr. Wieder told us that the assembly lie efficiecy should be as high as possible. But how high ca it actually get? The cycle time, that is the processig time at oe statio, multiplied by the umber of statios must be at least as log as the sum of the processig times, i.e. it has to hold: C k p + p + + p + p. 2 Why does this hold? Well, the processig times of the jobs p i are allocated amog the statios ad are cotaied i the processig times of the statios s j. Thus it holds: p + p + + p + p = s + s + + s + s. 2 2 k k Note: The left-had side of the equatio cotais summads, the right-had side oly k summads. Sice C correspods to the maximum processig time of oe statio, it holds: Thus we ca coclude: We will ow cosider two cases: C k = s k s + s + + s + s. max j 2 k k j=,, k C k p + p + + p + p 2.

28 28 Case : I the first case both sides of the above iequality have exactly the same value, thus the equatio holds: p + p + + p + p = C k. 2 I this case, the umerator ad deomiator for the computatio of the assembly lie efficiecy have the same value, i.e. it follows: ALE =. Case 2: I the secod case the iequality holds: p + p + + p + p < C k. 2 So the deomiator of the assembly lie efficiecy is always greater tha the umerator. This meas that the ALE must be smaller tha oe: ALE <. Takig both cases ito accout leads to: ALE. The assembly lie efficiecy ca attai at most a value of oe. If we as i the first case obtai a ALE of oe, the all jobs are evely distributed amog the statios, the there would be o idle time for the machies. This would be the ideal case, the best solutio that ca be obtaied. We say, the assembly lie works at 00% capacity. The assembly lie efficiecy is a key figure of utilizatio. As Mr. Wieder from the Car Corp. said, we have to try to get a assembly lie efficiecy that is as high as possible. Now we kow that it ca be at most oe. We ca obtai a efficiecy of 00% if we build oly oe sigle statio that deals with all jobs. The cycle time the is the sum of the processig times: C = p + p p - + p. Let us study this case with example of the Car Corp.: C = p + p + p + p = 53 k = ALE 2 p + p + p + p C k 2 = = 53 = 53 But this optio is ot iterestig. I priciple it meas that we do ot use a assembly lie aymore. All jobs are executed at oe sigle statio. I additio, it would ot be possible to process several cars at the same time; the output would be very small. Thus the case k = is ot relevat i practice. I the followig we will forbid k =. The Clever Cosultig Team had the same ideas: Selia: I do t kow; that s very difficult. There re so may parameters that we do t kow, the cycle time, the umber ad the allocatio of the statios. So where shall we start? Oliver: That s true. But basically all these parameters are related. For example: If I build more statios, the ormally the cycle time decreases. Maybe we ca use this somehow? Nadie: Furthermore the umber of statios ca surely be limited. For example, we do already kow that it s osese to build oly oe statio. I could imagie that two are also isufficiet if we wat to produce a certai miimum amout per day..

29 29 Oliver: That s a good idea! Maybe we ca take the miimum output ito cosideratio, we have t thought about that before. Selia: O.K. Mr. Wieder said 20 uits of output per day. Let s deote the miimum output with O mi ad say: O mi = 20. So how may hours per day does the assembly lie ru? Sebastia: As far as I kow, it ca ru three shifts, that s 24 hours. If the order situatio is weak, sometimes oly two shifts are required, but the the Car Corp. does t have to produce 20 cars. Nadie: Good. After the lapse of oe cycle time C always oe car is completed. This meas, if the Car Corp. wats to produce at least 20 cars i oe day, the cycle time ca at most be 24/20 hours. Or 440/20 miutes. Reducig the fractio gives twelve miutes. Thus the Clever Cosultig Team did fid a estimate for the cycle time. The cycle time caot be loger tha this estimate; otherwise 24 hours would ot be eough to produce 20 cars. Therefore this value is called the maximum cycle time C max. A cycle time that is loger tha C max is ot allowed. Before we write dow the formula, we deote the productio period with P. I our case it is 24 hours or 440 miutes respectively. But it would also be possible to cosider a whole moth or just oe hour. C max P 440 = = = 2 = 2 O mi 20 The half brackets aroud the fractios cause that their cotet is rouded to a iteger. The brackets opeig upwards i the above equatio mea roudig dow. Brackets opeig dowwards mea roudig up. See the followig examples: 3, 2 = 4 3, 2 = 3 5 = 5 5 = 5 Fractioal umbers are rouded up or dow. Itegers remai uchaged ( E.2.9-2). Why is the maximum cycle time rouded dow? The cycle time is the sum of the processig times p i, which are itegers i our case. The sum of itegers is agai a iteger. Hece a reasoable cycle time is always a iteger. Now we have to explai why we roud dow. Here we study the maximum, i.e. the logest possible cycle time. A loger cycle time is ot allowed. If P / O mi yields a fractio, we ca oly choose smaller itegers. Thus C max results from roudig dow. The maximum cycle time of course has ifluece o the umber of statios. No statio ca have a processig time that is loger tha the maximum cycle time. If the maximum cycle time was already exceeded by a sigle job, if e.g. p = 5 did hold, the the miimum output could ot be achieved. The Car Corp. would have take o too much with this. The oly way to overcome this problem would be to decompose the relevat job ito several smaller jobs, util the maximum cycle time is ot exceeded aymore. But this possibility would have bee examied by the egieerig departmet of the Car Corp.. Sebastia: Very good. Now we have a upper boud for the cycle time. With this it should be possible to limit the umber of statios as well. Sice the smaller I choose the cycle time, the

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