2015 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest II Problems/Problem 1
Problem
In the sequence
what number occupies position
?
Solution
Since there is one,
twos,
fours and so on, the number that occupies a position is
. Since
, we get the
rd number to be
. Since the
th position is
positions higher than the last
1024$.
See also
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