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Since all the terms of the sequences are integers, and 100 isn't very big, we should just try out the possibilities for <math>b_2</math>. When we get to <math>b_2=9</math> and <math>a_2=91</math>, we have <math>a_4=271</math> and <math>b_4=729</math>, which works, therefore, the answer is <math>b_3+a_3=81+181=\boxed{262}</math>. | Since all the terms of the sequences are integers, and 100 isn't very big, we should just try out the possibilities for <math>b_2</math>. When we get to <math>b_2=9</math> and <math>a_2=91</math>, we have <math>a_4=271</math> and <math>b_4=729</math>, which works, therefore, the answer is <math>b_3+a_3=81+181=\boxed{262}</math>. | ||
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We have <math>a_k=r^{k-1}</math> and <math>b_k=(k-1)d</math>. First, <math>b_{k-1}<c_{k-1}=100</math> implies <math>d<100</math>, so <math>b_{k+1}<300</math>. | We have <math>a_k=r^{k-1}</math> and <math>b_k=(k-1)d</math>. First, <math>b_{k-1}<c_{k-1}=100</math> implies <math>d<100</math>, so <math>b_{k+1}<300</math>. | ||
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Note that <math>99-3^4=18</math>, which is not a multiple of <math>4</math>, which leaves <math>r^j=9^1</math>. We check: <math>a_j=9</math> implies <math>b_j=91</math>, i.e. <math>d=90</math>, so <math>b_{j+2}=271</math> and <math>a_{j+2}=729</math> and <math>c_{j+2}=1000</math>! So it works! Then <math>c_{j+1}=9^2+181=262</math>. | Note that <math>99-3^4=18</math>, which is not a multiple of <math>4</math>, which leaves <math>r^j=9^1</math>. We check: <math>a_j=9</math> implies <math>b_j=91</math>, i.e. <math>d=90</math>, so <math>b_{j+2}=271</math> and <math>a_{j+2}=729</math> and <math>c_{j+2}=1000</math>! So it works! Then <math>c_{j+1}=9^2+181=262</math>. | ||
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Problem
The sequences of positive integers and are an increasing arithmetic sequence and an increasing geometric sequence, respectively. Let . There is an integer such that and . Find .
Solution 1
Since all the terms of the sequences are integers, and 100 isn't very big, we should just try out the possibilities for . When we get to and , we have and , which works, therefore, the answer is .
Solution 2 (No trial and error)
We have and . First, implies , so .
It follows that , i.e., . Dividing through by we get where . Since is atleast we get , i.e. . Let's make a table: The only admissible values are .
Since , we must have .
Note that , which is not a multiple of , which leaves . We check: implies , i.e. , so and and ! So it works! Then .
Solution 3
Using the same reasoning ( isn't very big), we can guess which terms will work. The first case is , so we assume the second and fourth terms of are and . We let be the common ratio of the geometric sequence and write the arithmetic relationships in terms of .
The common difference is , and so we can equate: . Moving all the terms to one side and the constants to the other yields
, or . Simply listing out the factors of shows that the only factor less than a square that works is . Thus and we solve from there to get .
Solution by rocketscience
Solution 4 (More Robust Bash)
The reason for bashing in this context can also be justified by the fact 100 isn't very big.
Let the common difference for the arithmetic sequence be , and the common ratio for the geometric sequence be . The sequences are now , and . We can now write the given two equations as the following:
Take the difference between the two equations to get . Since 900 is divisible by 4, we can tell is even and is odd. Let , , where and are positive integers. Substitute variables and divide by 4 to get:
Because very small integers for yield very big results, we can bash through all cases of . Here, we set an upper bound for by setting as 3. After trying values, we find that , so . Testing out yields the correct answer of . Note that even if this answer were associated with another b value like , the value of can still only be 3 for all of the cases.
-Dankster42
See also
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