If only it was (n-1)(n+1)

The Fibonacci sequence is given by F 1 = 1 F_1 = 1 , F 2 = 1 F_2 = 1 and F n + 1 = F n + F n 1 F_{n+1} = F_n + F_{n-1} . What is

n = 2 1 F n 1 F n + 1 ? \sum_{n=2}^\infty \frac{ 1 } { F_{n-1} F_{n+1} } ?

Give your answer to 2 decimal places.


The answer is 1.00.

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2 solutions

Note first that 1 F n 1 F n + 1 = 1 F n 1 F n + 1 × F n + 1 F n 1 F n = 1 F n 1 F n 1 F n F n + 1 \dfrac{1}{F_{n-1}F_{n+1}} = \dfrac{1}{F_{n-1}F_{n+1}} \times \dfrac{F_{n+1} - F_{n-1}}{F_{n}} = \dfrac{1}{F_{n-1}F_{n}} - \dfrac{1}{F_{n}F_{n+1}} .

The sum to N N thus telescopes to n = 2 N 1 F n 1 F n + 1 = 1 F 1 F 2 1 F N F N + 1 \displaystyle\sum_{n=2}^{N} \dfrac{1}{F_{n-1}F_{n+1}} = \dfrac{1}{F_{1}F_{2}} - \dfrac{1}{F_{N}F_{N+1}} , which goes to 1 \boxed{1} as N N \to \infty .

Very nice observation! What made you think about it this way?

Calvin Lin Staff - 4 years, 6 months ago
Sparsh Setia
Dec 17, 2016

Here in series numbers are 1,1,2,3,5,8,13..... so,for given equation,for n=1 it would be 0.5 , for n=2 it would be 0.333, for n=3 it woild be 0.1 ,for n=4 it would be 0.0416 ,and for n=5 it would be 0.015 but after it the answer would come in 3 decimal place , not affecting our answer , so adding all the above values we get 0.99 as our answer

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