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COS3701 EXAM PACK 2025 {DETAILED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS }
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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
Jan/Feb 2023
COS3701
Theoretical Computer Science III
80 Marks
Duration 2 Hours
Welcome to the COS3701 exam.
Examiner name: Ms DR Mokwana
Internal moderator name: Prof F Bankole
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Question 1 [16]
(a) Determine a regular expression for the language L over the alphabet
{a, b} that consists of all words that have at least one b but contain
exactly one aa substring (and no other as).
Example of words in the language are aab, bbbaabbb,
bbbbaabbbbbbbb etc.
Examples of words that are not in the language are a, aba, bbab,
aaabbbb, baabbbbaabb
etc. (2)
Design a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) that will recognise
(b)
all of the words in L
as defined above. (4)
(c) Use Theorem 21 to develop a context-free grammar (CFG) (4)
for the language L.
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(d) Convert the following CFG to Chomsky Normal Form
(CNF):
S → aX Y | Y b
X→XZYZ|
a Y → bY |
Λ
Z→a|Λ (6)
Question 2 [10]
Build a deterministic pushdown automata (DPDA) that
accepts the language
L = {(ab)n(aa)m(ba)n−1 | n ≥ 1, m ≥ 1} over the alphabet Σ
= {a, b}.
Question 3 [12]
The pumping lemma with length for context-free languages (CFLs) can
be stated as follows: Let L be a CFL generated by a CFG in CNF with
p live productions. Then any word w in L with length > 2p can be
broken into five parts:
w = uvxyz such that length(vxy) ≤ 2p length(x) > 0 length(v)
+ length(y) > 0 and such that all the words uvnxynz with n ∈
{2, 3, 4, . . .} are also in the language L.
Use the pumping lemma with length to prove that the language
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