For which natural \(n\) does the number \(\frac{n^2}{1.001^n}\) reach its maximum value?
We consider a sequence of words consisting of the letters “A” and “B”. The first word in the sequence is “A”, the \(k\)-th word is obtained from the \((k-1)\)-th by the following operation: each “A” is replaced by “AAB” and each “B” by “A”. It is easy to see that each word is the beginning of the next, thus obtaining an infinite sequence of letters: AABAABAAABAABAAAB...
a) Where in this sequence will the 1000th letter “A” be?
b) Prove that this sequence is non-periodic.
In a row there are 2023 numbers. The first number is 1. It is known that each number, except the first and the last, is equal to the sum of two neighboring ones. Find the last number.
Two players are playing a game. The first player is thinking of a finite sequence of positive integers \(a_1\), \(a_2\), ..., \(a_n\). The second player can try to find the first player’s sequence by naming their own sequence \(b_1\), \(b_2\), ..., \(b_n\). After this, the first player will give the result \(a_1b_1 + a_2b_2 + ...+a_nb_n\). Then the second player can say another sequence \(c_1\), \(c_2\), ..., \(c_n\) to get another answer \(a_1c_1+ a_2c_2 + ... +a_nc_n\) from the first player. Find the smallest number of sequences the second player has to name to find out the sequence \(a_1\), \(a_2\), ..., \(a_n\).
In good conditions, bacteria in a Petri cup spread quite fast, doubling every second. If there was initially one bacterium, then in \(32\) seconds the bacteria will cover the whole surface of the cup.
Now suppose that there are initially \(4\) bacteria. At what time will the bacteria cover the surface of the cup?
What’s the sum of the Fibonacci numbers \(F_0+F_1+F_2+...+F_n\)?
What’s the sum \(\frac{F_2}{F_1}+\frac{F_4}{F_2}+\frac{F_6}{F_3}+...+\frac{F_{18}}{F_9}+\frac{F_{20}}{F_{10}}\)?
Is \(F_{100}\) a multiple of \(3\)?
We have a sequence where the first term (\(x_1\)) is equal to \(2\), and each term is \(1\) minus the reciprocal of the previous term (which we can write as \(x_{n+1}=1-\frac{1}{x_n}\)).
What’s \(x_{57}\)?