Saturday 30 July 2016

combinatorics - Combinatorial proof of $ sum limits_{i = 0} ^{m} 2^{n-i} {n choose i}{m choose i} = sumlimits_{i=0}^m {n + m - i choose m} {n choose i} $

I've been wondering for a while how to solve (prove) a combinatorial identity, using just combinatorial interpretation:



$$ \sum \limits_{i = 0} ^{m} 2^{n-i} {n \choose i}{m \choose i} = \sum\limits_{i=0}^n {n + m - i \choose m} {n \choose i} $$



($ m \leq n $ )



The left hand side is pretty much about choosing any number of elements from the set $ M = \{a_1, \dots, a_m\} $ and then choosing at least the same amount from $ N = \{b_1, \dots, b_n\} $, but I can't see how the right hand side satisfies that.

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