Thursday, August 3, 2017

induction - Prove that every natural number n>6 can be written as a sum a+b where a,bmathbbNsetminus1 andgcd(a,b)=1

Is this the correct approach to this problem:
I tried induction.
This is what the professor said: Hint: Treat the cases n even and odd separately.







Inductive hypothesis:



n=a+b for n>6



Base case



Let n=7. Then 3+4=7 where 3,4 have a gccd of 1.




Induction Step



Induction Step:
Prove: n+1=a+b



Case 1: Let a be a+1. This is possible because a is in the natural numbers.
So a+b+1=n+1. By the inductive hypothesis n=a+b so we can substitute it. Therefore n+1=n+1.



Case 2: Let b be b+1.
This is symmetrical to case one.

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