G'morning Bo, 

 MM> Err .. Fred felt guilty about not saving money, so he opened a
 MM> savings account and put a small sum at the end of the first two
 MM> weeks.

 MM> Then Freda, his wife, found the deposit book and blew her top over
 MM> his lack of a saving plan.

 MM> Fred now agreed to put in each week a deposit equal to the sum of
 MM> the previous two weeks' deposits.

 MM> On week 13 he put in $1000.   What were his first 2 payments ?

 BS> Just me or is it a bit tricky?

Of course - anything else automatically explodes when posted to 
MENSA !!

It might help if you've read "The De Vinci Code", anything by 
Fibonacci or stuff about the Golden Ratio  ...  but just modelling 
it can crack the problem...

:-))
 
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