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HMMT February 2020 #0kc9

HMMT February 2020Hard

From module Telescoping Sums and Products

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Scale 0.5: Easiest math competition problems, often solvable even for early middle school students without experience. 1: Problems strictly for beginners, often at a moderate middle school level. 1.5: Problems for stronger beginner students, on the level of the middling problems in most middle school contests. 2: For motivated beginners, harder questions from the previous categories. 2.5: More advanced beginner problems, hardest questions from previous categories. 3: Early intermediate problems that require more creative thinking. 3.5: Tougher early intermediate problems that consistently stretch into higher-level creative thinking or conceptual knowledge. 4: Intermediate-level problems. 4.5: Upper intermediate problems approaching the upper bound for non-invitational sprint math competitions. 5: More difficult AIME problems or simple proof-based Olympiad-style problems. 6: High-level AIME-styled questions or introductory Olympiad-level questions. 7: Tougher Olympiad-level questions, may require more technical knowledge. 8: High-level Olympiad-level questions. 9: Expert Olympiad-level questions. 9.5: The hardest problems appearing on Olympiads which the strongest students could reasonably solve. 10: Historically notorious problems, generally unsuitable for even very hard competitions because they are exceedingly tedious, long, and difficult.
Sums and productsTelescoping seriesRecurrence relationsInduction / smoothing

Problem

Problem: The Fibonacci numbers are defined by F0=0F_{0}=0, F1=1F_{1}=1, and Fn=Fn−1+Fn−2F_{n}=F_{n-1}+F_{n-2} for n≥2n \geq 2. There exist unique positive integers n1n_{1}, n2n_{2}, n3n_{3}, n4n_{4}, n5n_{5}, n6n_{6} such that

∑i1=0100∑i2=0100∑i3=0100∑i4=0100∑i5=0100Fi1+i2+i3+i4+i5=Fn1−5Fn2+10Fn3−10Fn4+5Fn5−Fn6\sum_{i_{1}=0}^{100} \sum_{i_{2}=0}^{100} \sum_{i_{3}=0}^{100} \sum_{i_{4}=0}^{100} \sum_{i_{5}=0}^{100} F_{i_{1}+i_{2}+i_{3}+i_{4}+i_{5}}=F_{n_{1}}-5 F_{n_{2}}+10 F_{n_{3}}-10 F_{n_{4}}+5 F_{n_{5}}-F_{n_{6}}

Find n1+n2+n3+n4+n5+n6n_{1}+n_{2}+n_{3}+n_{4}+n_{5}+n_{6}.

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