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Problem

Let $N$ be the number of ordered pairs of nonempty sets $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ that have the following properties:

$\mathcal{A} \cup \mathcal{B} = \{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12\}$ ,
$\mathcal{A} \cap \mathcal{B} = \emptyset$ ,
The number of elements of $\mathcal{A}$ is not an element of $\mathcal{A}$ ,
The number of elements of $\mathcal{B}$ is not an element of $\mathcal{B}$ .

Find $N$ .

Solution

Let us partition the set $\{1,2,\cdots,12\}$ into $n$ numbers in $A$ and $12-n$ numbers in $B$ ,

Since $n$ must be in $B$ and $12-n$ must be in $A$ ( $n\ne6$ , we cannot partition into two sets of 6 because $6$ needs to end up somewhere, $n\ne 0$ or $12$ either).

We have $\dbinom{10}{n-1}$ ways of picking the numbers to be in $A$ .

So the answer is $\left(\sum_{n=1}^{11} \dbinom{10}{n-1}\right) - \dbinom{10}{5}=2^{10}-252= \boxed{772}$ .

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