Problem

Source: Indonesia TST 2009 First Stage Test 3 Problem 2

Tags: Pascal's Triangle, combinatorics proposed, combinatorics



Consider the following array: \[ 3, 5\\3, 8, 5\\3, 11, 13, 5\\3, 14, 24, 18, 5\\3, 17, 38, 42, 23, 5\\ \ldots \] Find the 5-th number on the $ n$-th row with $ n>5$.