Please provide detailed steps toward the solutions for each questions. Document Preview: Assignment 3 Each problem in this homework is worth 10 points 1. SHA-512 is a hash function that maps a message of any length to a digest, which is binary string of size 512. What is the total number of possible digests that could be generated from all messages? 2. How many byte values have an equal number of 1s and 0s? 3. When tossing a fair coin four times, how many events will form a full group of events? List all of these events in which the first toss results in a heads. 4. What are the odds that a randomly selected number between 1 and 100 will not have a digit 7? (For instance, 23 does not have a digit 7, but 73 does.) 5. There are 4 slots, each containing any of letters a, m, h, t. What are the odds that letters stored in these slots read the word math? 6. Consider strings of length 9 with elements being a, b or c. How many strings will contain at least 6 bs? Let (4,3) and (7,11) be two points in a plane. If all paths are equally likely, what would be the probability of choosing a path that begins with an up move and ends with an up move? (Each path is made up of moves that either go up one unit or over one unit to the right.) 8. In a state lottery game, anyone who picks 6 numbers out of 36 wins $50,000, no matter how many people correctly guessed the winning numbers. What are the odds of winning in this game? 9. The first three characters of a car license plate number are letter characters. a) Whats the probability of the first three characters being BAZ? b) Whats the probability of the second character being K? c) Whats the probability that the first character is either A, B, or C? 10. A cube has all of its sides Attachments: Lamos-Paul-As.doc