3. Pick an interesting positive integer a with a > 20. (a) How many nonnegative integer solutions are there to the equation x₁ + x2 + x3 + x₁ = a? (b) the equation x₁ + x₂ + x3 + x₁ = a that satisfy x; ≤ How many nonnegative integer solutions are there to ?
3. Pick an interesting positive integer a with a > 20. (a) How many nonnegative integer solutions are there to the equation x₁ + x2 + x3 + x₁ = a? (b) the equation x₁ + x₂ + x3 + x₁ = a that satisfy x; ≤ How many nonnegative integer solutions are there to ?
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3. Pick an interesting positive integer \( a \) with \( a > 20 \).
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(a) How many nonnegative integer solutions are there to the equation \( x_1 + x_2 + x_3 + x_4 = a \)?
(b) How many nonnegative integer solutions are there to the equation \( x_1 + x_2 + x_3 + x_4 = a \) that satisfy \( x_i \leq \left\lfloor \frac{a}{2} \right\rfloor \)?
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