Use the distributive property to write each expression as an equivalent algebraic expression.

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PSYCHO15rus [73]3 years ago

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The answer would be -8u+16

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Let an = –3an-1 + 10an-2 with initial conditions a1 = 29 and a2 = –47. a) Write the first 5 terms of the recurrence relation. b)

zlopas [31]

We can express the recurrence,

$\begin{cases}a_1=29\\a_2=-47\\a_n=-3a_{n-1}+10a_{n-2}7\text{for }n\ge3\end{cases}$

in matrix form as

$\begin{bmatrix}a_n\\a_{n-1}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}a_{n-1}\\a_{n-2}\end{bmatrix}$

By substitution,

$\begin{bmatrix}a_{n-1}\\a_{n-2}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}a_{n-2}\\a_{n-3}\end{bmatrix}\implies\begin{bmatrix}a_n\\a_{n-1}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}^2\begin{bmatrix}a_{n-2}\\a_{n-3}\end{bmatrix}$

and continuing in this way we would find that

$\begin{bmatrix}a_n\\a_{n-1}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}^{n-2}\begin{bmatrix}a_2\\a_1\end{bmatrix}$

Diagonalizing the coefficient matrix gives us

$\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}-5&0\\0&2\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}^{-1}$

which makes taking the $(n-2)$ -th power trivial:

$\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}^{n-2}=\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}-5&0\\0&2\end{bmatrix}^{n-2}\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}^{-1}$

$\begin{bmatrix}-3&10\\1&0\end{bmatrix}^{n-2}=\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}(-5)^{n-2}&0\\0&2^{n-2}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}^{-1}$

So we have

$\begin{bmatrix}a_n\\a_{n-1}\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}(-5)^{n-2}&0\\0&2^{n-2}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}-5&2\\1&1\end{bmatrix}^{-1}\begin{bmatrix}a_2\\a_1\end{bmatrix}$