Pascal row with neighbouring entries in ratio 3 to 4 to 5
Question
Some row of Pascal's triangle contains three adjacent entries whose ratio is . What is the smallest such ?
Short answer
. Write the entries as . Their consecutive ratios are and , i.e. and , whose unique solution is , .
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