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Poly Fibs
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Stage: 5 Challenge Level:
Use the defining relation for these polynomials to write $P_6$ in terms of $P_5$ and $P_4$ then in terms of $P_3$ and $P_2$ and the result follows.
The results for $P_8$ and for $P_{10}$ are proved similarly.
Stage 5 - Reviewed 2012
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Manipulating algebraic expressions/formulae
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Interactivities
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Factorisation (algebraic)
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Making and proving conjectures
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Mathematical reasoning & proof
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Generalising
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Polynomials
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Inequality/inequalities
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Recurrence relations
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Published January 2004.
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