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[hide]Problem
In a sequence of positive integers, each term after the second is the product of the previous two terms. The sixth term is . What is the first term?
Solution
Suppose the first two terms were and . Then, the next terms would be , , , and . Since is the sixth term, this must be equal to . So, . Trying out the choices, we get that , , which means that the answer is
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Video Solution 1 by OmegaLearn (Using Diophantine Equations)
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