Here's a problem from Fibonacci... that I have to figure out, but I'm a little confuzzled.

1. It takes a newborn rabbit one month to become an adult.
2. A pair of adult rabbits of both genders will produce one pair of newborn rabbits of both genders each month, beginning one month after becoming adults.
3. The rabbits do not die.

How many rabbits will there be one year later? ( To help with your solution, write a recursion equation in which r sub n, the number of pairs of rabbits n months from now, is expressed in terms of r sub n-1 and r sub n-2. Remember that r sub 0 is 1.)

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Here's a problem from Fibonacci... that I have to figure out, but I'm a little confuzzled. 

1. It takes a newborn rabbit one month to become an adult.
2. A pair of adult rabbits of both genders will produce one pair of newborn rabbits of both genders each month, beginning one month after becoming adults.
3. The rabbits do not die.

How many rabbits will there be one year later? ( To help with your solution, write a recursion equation in which r sub n, the number of pairs of rabbits n months from now, is expressed in terms of r sub n-1 and r sub n-2. Remember that r sub 0 is 1.)

anonymous · Answer

24 ? im not sure though