A multiplexer is placed between a group of 32 registers and an accumulator to regulate data movement such that at any given point in time the content of only one register will move to the accumulator. The minimum number of select lines needed for the multiplexer is _____.

Which one of the following predicate formulae is NOT logically valid?

Note that W is a predicate formula without any free occurrence of x.

Let A and B be two n$$ \times $$n matrices over real numbers. Let rank(M) and det(M) denote the rank and determinant of a matrix M, respectively. Consider the following statements,

I. rank(AB) = rank(A) rank(B)
II. det(AB) = det(A) det(B)
III. rank(A + B) $$ \le $$ rank(A) + rank(B)
IV. det(A + B) $$ \le $$ det(A) + det(B)

Which of the above statements are TRUE?

The number of permutations of the characters in LILAC so that no character appears in its original position, if the two L’s are indistinguishable, is _______.