Hint for Section 8.3 Question 1

1. Recall that a  second-order linear homogeneous recurrence relation with constant coefficients is a recurrence relation of the form
ak = A · ak-1 + B · ak-2    for all integers k geq.jpg (896 bytes) some fixed integer, where A and B are fixed real numbers with B noteq.jpg (905 bytes)0.

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