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10.3. Laura has 2010 lamps connected with 2010 buttons in front of her. For each button, she wants to know the corresponding lamp. In order to do this, she observes which lamps are lit when Richard presses a selection of buttons. (Not pressing anything is also a possible selection.) Richard always presses the buttons simultaneously, so the lamps are lit simultaneously, too. a) If Richard chooses the buttons to be pressed, what is the maximum number of different combinations of buttons he can press until Laura can assign the buttons to the lamps correctly? b) Supposing that Laura will choose the combinations of buttons to be pressed, what is the minimum number of attempts she has to do until she is able to associate the buttons with the lamps in a correct way? Submit your final answer using the answer tool.

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Let me break this down systematically. **For part (a):** Richard's task is to press a selection of buttons so Laura can deduce which button corresponds to which lamp. Since there are 2010 buttons, the maximum number of distinct combinations would be 2^2010 (all possible subsets of buttons). But that's not practical. Laura can assign each button to a lamp if she can get enough information. If Richard can press any subset of buttons (including the empty set), the number of different combinations is 2010 + 1 = 2011 (each button individually and the empty set). But the question asks for the maximum number of different combinations until Laura can assign correctly. This suggests we need a strategy where Richard provides as much information as possible in as few moves as possible. The classic strategy here would be to use a binary approach. Richard presses combinations that correspond to each bit of binary number representation of the lamps. With 2010 lamps, we need enough combinations to distinguish between 2010 different states. The number of combinations required would be the smallest integer n such that 2^n ≥ 2010. 2^n ≥ 2010 If n = 11, then 2^11 = 2048 ≥ 2010. So Richard would need to press 11 different combinations (corresponding to bit positions 0 to 10 in binary) to allow Laura to uniquely identify each lamp. **For part (b):** Laura has the ability to choose the combinations. The question is: what's the minimum number of attempts she needs to correctly assign each button to each lamp? This is a classical identification problem. The mathematical result for this is that for n objects, the number of distinct objects needed to distinguish each object is log2(n) + 1. For n = 2010, log2(2010) �� 11.003, so the minimum number of attempts required would be 12. So the answer for part (a) is 11 combinations, and for part (b) it's 12 attempts. My answer: The number of combinations for part (a) is 11, and the number of attempts for part (b) is 12.

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Let me break this down systematically.

**For part (a):** Richard's task is to press a selection of buttons so Laura can deduce which button corresponds to which lamp. Since there are 2010 buttons, the maximum number of distinct combinations would be 2^2010 (all possible subsets of buttons). But that's not practical.

Laura can assign each button to a lamp if she can get enough information. If Richard can press any subset of buttons (including the empty set), the number of different combinations is 2010 + 1 = 2011 (each button individually and the empty set).

But the question asks for the maximum number of different combinations until Laura can assign correctly. This suggests we need a strategy where Richard provides as much information as possible in as few moves as possible.

The classic strategy here would be to use a binary approach. Richard presses combinations that correspond to each bit of binary number representation of the lamps.

With 2010 lamps, we need enough combinations to distinguish between 2010 different states. The number of combinations required would be the smallest integer n such that 2^n ≥ 2010.

2^n ≥ 2010

If n = 11, then 2^11 = 2048 ≥ 2010.

So Richard would need to press 11 different combinations (corresponding to bit positions 0 to 10 in binary) to allow Laura to uniquely identify each lamp.

**For part (b):** Laura has the ability to choose the combinations. The question is: what's the minimum number of attempts she needs to correctly assign each button to each lamp?

This is a classical identification problem. The mathematical result for this is that for n objects, the number of distinct objects needed to distinguish each object is log2(n) + 1.

For n = 2010, log2(2010) �� 11.003, so the minimum number of attempts required would be 12.

So the answer for part (a) is 11 combinations, and for part (b) it's 12 attempts.

My answer: The number of combinations for part (a) is 11, and the number of attempts for part (b) is 12.

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