The Secretary Is Typing A Letter

The Secretary Is Typing A Letter
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How to Indicate a Typist's Initials in a Letter
If you type your own letter, you do not need to include the typist's initials line, as it is assumed that you typed the letter yourself. Some companies only require the initials of the typist, and not the letter writer, as that is implied by the signature. Adding the typist's initials is not mandatory in most cases. Follow your company procedure; it may only be necessary to include this information on a copy of the letter for the company files.
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Formal business letters have multiple requirements, all designed to ensure consistency and that necessary information appears in the letter. From the return address to the closing, proper business letter formatting is specific, and failing to adhere to the guidelines can make your communication appear unprofessional. In some cases, an executive will draft a letter and ask an assistant or colleague to type it. When that happens, some companies require that the typist include his or her initials in the letter so that person can be held accountable should mistakes or typos be found in the letter later.
Write the letter according to proper business formatting. Include the closing and signature block.
Add two blank lines underneath the signature block. Begin the typist’s initials line flush left.
Type the initials of the letter writer in capital letters, followed by a slash or colon. Add the typist’s initials in lowercase letters. For example, if the letter writer's name is Andrew Benson, and the typist's name is Carrie Dale, the typist line should appear as follows: AB/cd, or AB:cd.
If you type your own letter, you do not need to include the typist’s initials line, as it is assumed that you typed the letter yourself. Some companies only require the initials of the typist, and not the letter writer, as that is implied by the signature. Adding the typist’s initials is not mandatory in most cases. Follow your company procedure; it may only be necessary to include this information on a copy of the letter for the company files.
An adjunct instructor at Central Maine Community College, Kristen Hamlin is also a freelance writer on topics including lifestyle, education, and business. She is the author of Graduate! Everything You Need to Succeed After College (Capital Books), and her work has appeared in Lewiston Auburn Magazine, Young Money, USA Today and a variety of online outlets. She has a B.A. in Communication from Stonehill College, and a Master of Liberal Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Denver.

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In an office at various times during the day, the boss gives the secretary a letter to type, each time putting the letter on top of the pile in the secretary's inbox. When there is time, the secretary takes the top letter off the pile and types it. There are nine letters to be typed during the day, and the boss delivers them in the order .

While leaving for lunch, the secretary tells a colleague that letter has already been typed but says nothing else about the morning's typing. The colleague wonders which of the nine letters remain to be typed after lunch and in what order they will be typed. Based on the above information, how many such after-lunch typing orders are possible? (That there are no letters left to be typed is one of the possibilities.)

Re-stating the problem for clarity, let be a set arranged in increasing order. At any time an element can be appended to the end of , or the last element of can be removed. The question asks for the number of different orders in which all of the remaining elements of can be removed, given that had been removed already.

Since had already been added to the pile, the numbers had already been added at some time to the pile; might or might not have been added yet. So currently is a subset of , possibly with at the end. Given that has elements, there are intervals for to be inserted, or might have already been placed, giving different possibilities.

At any given time, the letters in the box are in decreasing order from top to bottom. Thus the sequence of letters in the box is uniquely determined by the set of letters in the box. We have two cases: letter 9 arrived before lunch or it did not.

Since letter 9 arrived before lunch, no further letters will arrive, and the number of possible orders is simply the number of subsets of which might still be in the box. In fact, each subset of is possible, because the secretary might have typed letters not in the subset as soon as they arrived and not typed any others. Since has 8 elements, it has subsets (including the empty set).

Since letter 9 didn't arrive before lunch, the question is: Where can it be inserted in the typing order? Any position is possible for each subset of which might have been left in the box during lunch (in descending order). For instance, if the letters in the box during lunch are then the typing order 6,3,9,2 would occur if the boss would deliver letter 9 just after letter 3 was typed. There would seem to be places at which letter 9 could be inserted into a sequence of letters. However, if letter 9 is inserted at the beginning of the sequence (i.e., at the top of the pile, so it arrives before any after-lunch typing is done), then we are duplicating an ordering from . Thus if letters are in the basket after returning from lunch, then there are places to insert letter 9 (without duplicating any orderings). Thus we obtain

new orderings in .

Combining these cases gives possible typing orders.

Note. The reasoning in can be extended to cover both cases by observing that in any sequence of letters not including letter 9, there are places to insert letter 9, counting the possibility of not having to insert it (i.e., if it arrived before lunch) as one of the cases. This yields

possible orderings, in agreement with the answer, found previously.

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15

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