Recurrence relations

  • Production Equation
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    Production equation

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Each week a company produces X units and sells p per cent of its stock. How should the company plan its warehouse space?
  • And so on - and on -and on
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    And so on - and on - and on

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you find the value of this function involving algebraic fractions for x=2000?

  • Poly Fibs
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    Poly fibs

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    A sequence of polynomials starts 0, 1 and each poly is given by combining the two polys in the sequence just before it. Investigate and prove results about the roots of the polys.
  • Loopy
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    Loopy

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Investigate sequences given by $a_n = \frac{1+a_{n-1}}{a_{n-2}}$ for different choices of the first two terms. Make a conjecture about the behaviour of these sequences. Can you prove your conjecture?
  • Golden Powers
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    Golden powers

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    You add 1 to the golden ratio to get its square. How do you find higher powers?
  • Powerful properties
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    Powerful properties

    Yatir from Israel wrote this article on numbers that can be written as $ 2^n-n $ where n is a positive integer.