OCR MEI Further Pure Core AS 2020 November — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleFurther Pure Core AS (Further Pure Core AS)
Year2020
SessionNovember
TopicProof by induction

5 You are given that \(u _ { 1 } = 5\) and \(u _ { n + 1 } = u _ { n } + 2 n + 4\).
Prove by induction that \(u _ { n } = n ^ { 2 } + 3 n + 1\) for all positive integers \(n\).