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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is the sum for: inf. series from n=1 to inf. ((2^(n-1))/9^n)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ok, writing the above in sigma notation, and doing a lot of simplifying, you can get: =\[\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (2/9)^n\] now we're at home base. since the infinite geometric series sum equation is a/(1-r), where a is the first number and r is the ration between all the numbers, we can easily plug 1 in the equation of the problem and get 1/9 as a looking at the sigma notation, we see that the ration between the numbers is 2/9 after pluging in these numbers in, we can find out that the sum is 1/7

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