Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2003/ia/paper-4/7c/i/solution

Write . For , the recurrence and the previously proved greatest common divisor invariance give
Repeating reaches . This also gives the case directly. Applying the same invariance once more,
Thus both requested greatest common divisors equal one for every . This is the adjacent-index instance of Fibonacci gcd reduction, derived directly rather than assuming the stronger general formula.

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