2023 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 6

Problem

Let $L_{1}=1, L_{2}=3$ , and $L_{n+2}=L_{n+1}+L_{n}$ for $n\geq 1$ . How many terms in the sequence $L_{1}, L_{2}, L_{3}......L_{2023}$ are even?

$\textbf{(A) }673\qquad\textbf{(B)} 674\qquad\textbf{(C) }675\qquad\textbf{(D) }1010\qquad\textbf{(E) }1011$

Solution

We calculate more terms:

$1,3,4,5,9,14,...$

We find a pattern: if $n$ is a multiple of $3$ , then the term is even, or else it is odd. There are $\lfloor\frac{2023}{3}\rfloor =\boxed{\textbf{(B) }674$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) multiples of $3$ from $1$ to $2023$ .

~Mintylemon66

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2023 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 6

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