SOLUTION: Male bees hatch from unfertilized eggs and so have a mother but no father. Female bees hatch from fertilized eggs. How many ancestors does a male bee have in the twelfth gener

Question 1202184: Male bees hatch from unfertilized eggs and so have a mother but no father. Female bees
hatch from fertilized eggs. How many ancestors does a male bee have in the twelfth
generation back? How many of these are males? Generalize to any generation back.

I was able to see the pattern which adds the pervious answers together.
gen 1: 1
gen 2: 1+1=2
gen 3: 1+2=3
gen 4: 2+3=5
gen 5: 3+5=8 all the way to the 12th gen
gen 12: 89+144=233
I know 89 are males and 233 are female.
Im lost on making an equation that work for any generation.

Found 2 solutions by mananth, ikleyn:
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4022219/prove-that-the-data-given-produce-the-fibonnaci-sequence-if-that-is-indeed-the-s
please refer link for better understanding
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Here is another link with more advanced reasoning

https://mathforums.com/t/ten-generations-of-bees.24278/

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