Thursday, October 29, 2009

Fibonacci Number Challenge

Medieval mathematician and businessman Fibonacci (Leonardo Pisano) posed the following problem in his treatise Liber Abaci (pub. 1202):

How many pairs of rabbits will be produced in a year, beginning with a single pair, if in every month each pair bears a new pair which becomes productive from the second month on?


Thanks to Mr Woody in Hamilton for this great idea. Chiefs and Blues are you up to the Fibonacci Challenge?
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    144 is the answer, its just the fibonacci sequence.
    EHappy1, EFrox and TBwashere

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  2. AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM

    144.
    cc12345678910

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  3. AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM

    MMSmiley and EJellay think the answer is 144 pairs of rabbits

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  4. AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    BTheblusun and LFrizz say that the answer is 144 pairs of rabbits.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM

    112 SCream11

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  6. AnonymousNovember 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM

    (: we got it right!
    EFrox and TBwashere

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