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Problem of the Week - February 17, 2020
The Fibonacci sequence beings with two 1s. Each term after the first two 1s is the sum of previous two terms. The sequence begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …
Let a, b, c, and d be four consecutive terms of the Fibonacci sequence. If
a + b + c = 3194 and
b + c + d = 5168
find the value of a.
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