2008 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 10

Problem

Suppose that $(u_n)$ is a serquence of real numbers satifying $u_{n+2}=2u_{n+1}+u_n$ ,

and that $u_3=9$ and $u_6=128$ . What is $u_5$ ?

(A) 40 (B) 53 (C) 68 (D) 88 (E) 104

We know that $u_6=128$ , so we plug in $n=4$ to get $128=2u_5+u_4$ . We plug in $n=3$ to get

$u_5=2u_4+9$ . Substituting gives

$128=5u_4+18 \rightarrow u_4=22$

This gives $u_5=\frac{128-22}{2}=53$ .

Answer B is the correct answer

NOTE: This is my (BOGTRO) solution, not the official one,

and should be ignored in view of a better solution.

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