Found problems: 1239
Positive integers $a_1, a_2, \dots, a_{2023}$ satisfy the following conditions.
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[*] $a_1 = 5, a_2 = 25$
[*] $a_{n + 2} = 7a_{n+1}-a_n-6$ for each $n = 1, 2, \dots, 2021$
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Prove that there exist integers $x, y$ such that $a_{2023} = x^2 + y^2.$
Suppose that $\{a_n\}$ is a sequence such that $a_{n+1}=(1+\frac{k}{n})a_{n}+1$ with $a_{1}=1$.Find all positive integers $k$ such that any $a_n$ be integer.
Prove that there exists two strictly increasing sequences $(a_{n})$ and $(b_{n})$ such that $a_{n}(a_{n}+1)$ divides $b^{2}_{n}+1$ for every natural n.
There is a unique sequence of integers $a_1, a_2, \cdots a_{2023}$ such that
$$
\tan2023x = \frac{a_1 \tan x + a_3 \tan^3 x + a_5 \tan^5 x + \cdots + a_{2023} \tan^{2023} x}{1 + a_2 \tan^2 x + a_4 \tan^4 x \cdots + a_{2022} \tan^{2022} x}
$$
whenever $\tan 2023x$ is defined. What is $a_{2023}?$
$\textbf{(A) } -2023 \qquad\textbf{(B) } -2022 \qquad\textbf{(C) } -1 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 1 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 2023$
Let $a_1,a_2,a_3,\ldots$ be an infinite sequence of positive integers such that $a_{n+2m}$ divides $a_{n}+a_{n+m}$ for all positive integers $n$ and $m.$ Prove that this sequence is eventually periodic, i.e. there exist positive integers $N$ and $d$ such that $a_n=a_{n+d}$ for all $n>N.$
A sequence $a_0, a_1, \dots , a_n, \dots$ of positive integers is constructed as follows:
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[*] If the last digit of $a_n$ is less than or equal to $5$, then this digit is deleted and $a_{n+1}$ is the number consisting of the remaining digits. (If $a_{n+1}$ contains no digits, the process stops.)
[*] Otherwise, $a_{n+1}= 9a_n$.
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Can one choose $a_0$ so that this sequence is infinite?
The sequence $\{x_n\}$ is given by
$$x_n=\frac14\left(\left(2+\sqrt3\right)^{2n-1}+\left(2-\sqrt3\right)^{2n-1}\right),\qquad n\in\mathbb N.$$Prove that each $x_n$ is equal to the sum of squares of two consecutive integers.
An integer sequence is defined by \[{ a_n = 2 a_{n-1} + a_{n-2}}, \quad (n > 1), \quad a_0 = 0, a_1 = 1.\] Prove that $2^k$ divides $a_n$ if and only if $2^k$ divides $n$.
Let $a_0,a_1,a_2,\dots $ be a sequence of real numbers such that $a_0=0, a_1=1,$ and for every $n\geq 2$ there exists $1 \leq k \leq n$ satisfying \[ a_n=\frac{a_{n-1}+\dots + a_{n-k}}{k}. \]Find the maximum possible value of $a_{2018}-a_{2017}$.
Let $(a_n)_{n\geq 1}$ be a sequence of positive real numbers in which $\lim_{n\to\infty} a_n = 0$ such that there is a constant $c >0$ so that for all $n \geq 1$, $|a_{n+1}-a_n| \leq c\cdot a_n^2$. Show that exists $d>0$ with $na_n \geq d, \forall n \geq 1$.
Given a sequence $\{a_n\}$: $a_1=1, a_{n+1}=\left\{
\begin{array}{lcr}
a_n+n,\quad a_n\le n, \\
a_n-n,\quad a_n>n,
\end{array}
\right.
\quad n=1,2,\cdots.$
Find the number of positive integers $r$ satisfying $a_r<r\le 3^{2017}$.
Let $(a_n)_{n\geq 1}$ be a sequence of positive real numbers with the property that
$$(a_{n+1})^2 + a_na_{n+2} \leq a_n + a_{n+2}$$
for all positive integers $n$. Show that $a_{2022}\leq 1$.
The positive sequence $\{a_n\}$ satisfies:$a_1=1+\sqrt 2$ and $(a_n-a_{n-1})(a_n+a_{n-1}-2\sqrt n)=2(n\geq 2).$
(1)Find the general formula of $\{a_n\}$;
(2)Find the set of all the positive integers $n$ so that $\lfloor a_n\rfloor=2022$.
The first term of a sequence is $2014$. Each succeeding term is the sum of the cubes of the digits of the previous term. What is the $2014$ th term of the sequence?
$w(x)$ is a polynomial with integer coefficients. Let $p_n$ be the sum of the digits of the number $w(n)$. Show that some value must occur infinitely often in the sequence $p_1, p_2, p_3, ...$ .
An infinite sequence $ \,x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},\ldots \,$ of real numbers is said to be [b]bounded[/b] if there is a constant $ \,C\,$ such that $ \, \vert x_{i} \vert \leq C\,$ for every $ \,i\geq 0$. Given any real number $ \,a > 1,\,$ construct a bounded infinite sequence $ x_{0},x_{1},x_{2},\ldots \,$ such that
\[ \vert x_{i} \minus{} x_{j} \vert \vert i \minus{} j \vert^{a}\geq 1
\]
for every pair of distinct nonnegative integers $ i, j$.
Let $(n+3)a_{n+2}=(6n+9)a_{n+1}-na_n$ and $a_0=1$ and $a_1=2$ prove that all the terms of the sequence are integers
Given a sequence $(a_n)$ of non-negative real numbers such that $a_{n+m}\leq a_{n} a_{m} $ for all pairs of positive integers $m$ and $n,$ prove that the sequence $(\sqrt[n]{a_n })$ converges.
Consider the sequence defined by $a_1 = 2022$ and $a_{n+1} = a_n + e^{-a_n}$ for $n \geq 1$. Prove that there exists a positive real number $r$ for which the sequence $$\{ra_1\}, \{ra_{10}\}, \{ra_{100}\}, . . . $$converges.
[i]Note[/i]: $\{x \} = x - \lfloor x \rfloor$ denotes the part of $x$ after the decimal point.
[i]Proposed by Ethan Tan[/i]
Let be a sequence $ \left( a_n \right)_{n\ge 1} $ with $ a_1>0 $ and satisfying the equality
$$ a_n=\sqrt{a_{n+1} -\sqrt{a_{n+1} +a_n}} , $$
for all natural numbers $ n. $
[b]a)[/b] Find a recurrence relation between two consecutive elements of $ \left( a_n \right)_{n\ge 1} . $
[b]b)[/b] Prove that $ \lim_{n\to\infty } \frac{\ln\ln a_n}{n} =\ln 2. $
Let $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^n (x-1)^{2n}}{n!}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} a_{n}x^{n}$. Show that no three consecutive $a_n$ can be equal to $0$.
A sequence of $N$ consecutive positive integers is called [i]good [/i] if it is possible to choose two of these numbers so that their product is divisible by the sum of the other $N-2$ numbers. For which $N$ do there exist infinitely many [i]good [/i] sequences?
A sequence $a_1,a_2,\dots$ satisfy
$$
\sum_{i =1}^n a_{\lfloor \frac{n}{i}\rfloor }=n^{10},
$$
for every $n\in\mathbb{N}$.
Let $c$ be a positive integer. Prove that, for every positive integer $n$,
$$
\frac{c^{a_n}-c^{a_{n-1}}}{n}
$$
is an integer.
Define the numbers $a_0, a_1, \ldots, a_n$ in the following way:
\[ a_0 = \frac{1}{2}, \quad a_{k+1} = a_k + \frac{a^2_k}{n} \quad (n > 1, k = 0,1, \ldots, n-1). \]
Prove that \[ 1 - \frac{1}{n} < a_n < 1.\]
We define a sequence of positive integers $a_1,a_2,a_3,\dots$ as follows: Let $a_1=1$ and iteratively, for $k =2,3,\dots$ let $a_k$ be the largest prime factor of $1+a_1a_2\cdots a_{k-1}$. Show that the number $11$ is not an element of this sequence.