Edexcel FP2 2021 June — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFP2 (Further Pure Mathematics 2)
Year2021
SessionJune
TopicSequences and series, recurrence and convergence

  1. A recurrence system is defined by
$$\begin{aligned} u _ { n + 2 } & = 9 ( n + 1 ) ^ { 2 } u _ { n } - 3 u _ { n + 1 } \quad n \geqslant 1
u _ { 1 } & = - 3 , u _ { 2 } = 18 \end{aligned}$$ Prove by induction that, for \(n \in \mathbb { N }\), $$u _ { n } = ( - 3 ) ^ { n } n !$$