Homework Help: math

Posted by zgord on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 8:15pm.

*if it is in parentheses, it is subscripted.

the sequence {a(n)} is defined recursively by a(1) = 1, a(2) = 1 and for all n>= 1, a(n+2) = a(n+1) + a(n). use the principle of mathematical induction to prove that a(1) + a(2) + a(3) + ... + a(n) = a(n+2) - 1

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