An infinite strictly increasing sequence of positive integers is given. It is also given that and is divisible by for any positive integer . Prove that for any positive integer . (Kanat Satylkhanov)
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
By induction on it is easy to show that for any . Suppose that there exists a positive integer such that . Let's choose such positive integer that and . Then for any , . It follows from the problem statement that . Since is strictly increasing and , then . Therefore, , but then — a contradiction.
Solution 2
Let for each . By induction on it is easy to show that for any . If for some , then
— a contradiction. Thus, the sequence is non-decreasing. On the other hand, it has an upper bound: . Hence, there exists such non-negative integer and a positive integer that for each . So, for any
But this is only possible when . Therefore, for each sufficiently large , and thus for all , i.e. for all .
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