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AIME 2016a Problem 10

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A strictly increasing sequence of positive integers a1a_1, a2a_2, a3a_3, ⋯\cdots has the property that for every positive integer kk, the subsequence a2k−1a_{2k-1}, a2ka_{2k}, a2k+1a_{2k+1} is geometric and the subsequence a2ka_{2k}, a2k+1a_{2k+1}, a2k+2a_{2k+2} is arithmetic. Suppose that a13=2016a_{13} = 2016. Find a1a_1.

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