Re: ISI 2014 MEI

Posted by Granpa Simpson on Apr 04, 2014; 8:27pm
URL: http://discussion-forum.276.s1.nabble.com/ISI-2014-MEI-tp7585912p7586121.html

The answer to Q6 I guess will be (p-1)^2,
Since for all a, b in the set {0,1,….p-1}, total matrices formed = p^2 and for the same the number of zero matrices = 2p-1.
So, number of p-special matrices = (p^2 -2p+1) = (p-1)^2 , option “a”