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Mathematical-Induction-Exercise 1
1: ALGEBRA

2: GEOMETRY AND VECTORS Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper and compare with the suggested answers after

3: SERIES AND SEQUENCES submission.

4: CALCULUS

5: NUMERICAL METHODS
1)    Prove for every positive integer: 1 2 +... + n3 = ( n(n+1)
2 ) 2

6: COMPLEX NUMBERS 2)    Show that n ! > 2 n for n ≥ 4.

1
3)    Prove for every positive integer: 1 + . . . + ≤ 2√n - 1.
√n

4)    Prove that for any positive integer, 6 n - 1 is divisible by 5.

5)    Prove that 7 2n - 1 + 5 is divisible by 12 for n ∈ ℤ + .

6)    Prove by induction

n 1
∑ r = 1 r 3 = 4 n 2(n + 1) 2

7)    Prove the following using mathematical induction on n:

                 
( ) (
2
-1 0
1 n
=
n+1
-n
n
-n + 1 )
8)    Prove by induction that n ∈ ℤ +

( ) (
3 -2 n
2 -1
=
2n + 1
2n
- 2n
1 - 2n )
( )
d
9)    Prove the following by induction  dx x n = nx n - 1 for all natural numbers n.

( )
10)    A sequence  u n is de ned by u 1 = 7 and u n + 1 = 7u n - 3. Prove the following using mathematical induction for all natural
numbers n.

( 13 × 7 ) + 1
n-1

un = 2

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