Ways to climb ten stairs in hops of one or two
Question
A rabbit starts on the floor below a -step staircase. Each hop takes it up either one step or two steps. In how many different hop sequences can it end exactly on the top (10th) step?
Short answer
. If counts the ways to reach step , the final hop is from step or , so with , . This is the Fibonacci sequence shifted by one, and .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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