# Sequence and Integers | AIME I, 2007 | Question 14

Try this beautiful problem from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination I, AIME I, 2007 based on Sequence and Integers.

## Sequence and Integers - AIME I, 2007

A sequence is defined over non negetive integral indexes in the following way $a_0=a_1=3$, $a_{n+1}a_{n-1}=a_n^{2}+2007$, find the greatest integer that does not exceed $\frac{a_{2006}^{2}+a_{2007}^{2}}{a_{2006}a_{2007}}$

• is 107
• is 224
• is 840
• cannot be determined from the given information

### Key Concepts

Sequence

Inequalities

Integers

AIME I, 2007, Question 14

Elementary Number Theory by David Burton

## Try with Hints

First hint

$a_{n+1}a_{n-1}$=$a_{n}^{2}+2007$ then $a_{n-1}^{2} +2007 =a_{n}a_{n-2}$ adding these $\frac{a_{n-1}+a_{n+1}}{a_{n}}$=$\frac{a_{n}+a_{n-2}}{a_{n-1}}$, let $b_{j}$=$\frac{a_{j}}{a_{j-1}}$ then $b_{n+1} + \frac{1}{b_{n}}$=$b_{n}+\frac{1}{b_{n-1}}$ then $b_{2007} + \frac{1}{b_{2006}}$=$b_{3}+\frac{1}{b_{2}}$=225

Second Hint

here $\frac{a_{2007}a_{2005}}{a_{2006}a_{2005}}$=$\frac{a_{2006}^{2}+2007}{a_{2006}a_{2005}}$ then $b_{2007}$=$\frac{a_{2007}}{a_{2006}}$=$\frac{a_{2006}^{2}+2007}{a_{2006}a_{2005}}$$\gt$$\frac{a_{2006}}{a_{2005}}$=$b_{2006}$

Final Step

then $b_{2007}+\frac{1}{b_{2007}} \lt b_{2007}+\frac{1}{b_{2006}}$=225 which is small less such that all $b_{j}$ s are greater than 1 then $\frac{a_{2006}^{2}+ a_{2007}^{2}}{a_{2006}a_{2007}}$=$b_{2007}+\frac{1}{b_{2007}}$=224.

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