2006 AIME II Problems/Problem 11
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A sequence is defined as follows and, for all positive integers Given that and find the remainder when is divided by 1000.
Solutions
Solution 1
Define the sum as . Since , the sum will be:
Thus , and are both given; the last four digits of their sum is , and half of that is . Therefore, the answer is .−
Solution 2 (bash)
Since the problem only asks for the first 28 terms and we only need to calculate mod 1000, we simply bash the first 28 terms:
$a_{1}\equiv 1 \pmod {1000} \
a_{2}\equiv 1 \pmod {1000} \
a_{3}\equiv 1 \pmod {1000} \
a_{4}\equiv 3 \pmod {1000} \
a_{5}\equiv 5 \pmod {1000} \
\cdots \
a_{25} \equiv 793 \pmod {1000} \
a_{26} \equiv 281 \pmod {1000} \
a_{27} \equiv 233 \pmod {1000} \
a_{28} \equiv 307 \pmod {1000}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Adding all the residues shows the sum is congruent to mod .
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Solution 3 (some guessing involved)/"Engineer's Induction"
All terms in the sequence are sums of previous terms, so the sum of all terms up to a certain point must be some linear combination of the first three terms. Also, we are given and , so we can guess that there is some way to use them in a formula. Namely, we guess that there exists some such that . From here, we list out the first few terms of the sequence and the cumulative sums, and with a little bit of substitution and algebra we see that , at least for the first few terms. From this, we have that .
Solution by zeroman; clarified by srisainandan6
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