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What is the ratio between the red and blue area? All shapes are semicircles.

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In a parallelogram \(ABCD\), point \(E\) belongs to the side \(CD\) and point \(F\) belongs to the side \(BC\). Show that the total red area is the same as the total blue area:

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The figure below is a regular pentagram. What is larger, the black area or the blue area?

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What’s the sum of the Fibonacci numbers \(F_0+F_1+F_2+...+F_n\)?

What’s the sum \(\frac{F_2}{F_1}+\frac{F_4}{F_2}+\frac{F_6}{F_3}+...+\frac{F_{18}}{F_9}+\frac{F_{20}}{F_{10}}\)?

This week we’re looking at Fibonacci numbers, and other sequences of numbers.

We say that the ‘zeroth’ Fibonacci number is \(0\) and the first Fibonacci number is \(1\). Then, from that point, every Fibonacci number is found by adding the two previous Fibonacci numbers. This means that the sequence begins \(0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,...\)

The Fibonacci numbers hide lots of patterns which we’ll explore today, for example snail’s spiral.

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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 \(x_{57}\)?

Let \(n\) be a positive integer. Can \(n^7-77\) ever be a Fibonacci number?