Home Competitions HMMT 2015 T10
The sequences of real numbers { a i } i = 1 ∞ \left\{a_{i}\right\}_{i=1}^{\infty} { a i } i = 1 ∞ and { b i } i = 1 ∞ \left\{b_{i}\right\}_{i=1}^{\infty} { b i } i = 1 ∞ satisfy a n + 1 = ( a n − 1 − 1 ) ( b n + 1 ) a_{n+1}=\left(a_{n-1}-1\right)\left(b_{n}+1\right) a n + 1 = ( a n − 1 − 1 ) ( b n + 1 ) and b n + 1 = a n b n − 1 − 1 b_{n+1}=a_{n} b_{n-1}-1 b n + 1 = a n b n − 1 − 1 for n ≥ 2 n \geq 2 n ≥ 2 , with a 1 = a 2 = 2015 a_{1}=a_{2}=2015 a 1 = a 2 = 2015 and b 1 = b 2 = 2013 b_{1}=b_{2}=2013 b 1 = b 2 = 2013 . Evaluate, with proof, the infinite sum
∑ n = 1 ∞ b n ( 1 a n + 1 − 1 a n + 3 ) \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} b_{n}\left(\frac{1}{a_{n+1}}-\frac{1}{a_{n+3}}\right) n = 1 ∑ ∞ b n ( a n + 1 1 − a n + 3 1 )
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1+\frac{1}{2014 \cdot 2015}
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