A lottery winner must decide between two methods of payment. Choice one is to receive a lump sum of $100,000,000. Choice two is to begin with one cent on day 1, three cents on day 2, nine cents on day three, and so on until the end of 22 days Which should he choose?

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anonymous · Answer

A series eh?  :D

anonymous · Answer

Is this multiple choice?  I have the answer but it'll take a bit to type up how.  Are you familiar with series I hope?  (it's a sum of a sequence of numbers, you see sequences a lot on things like the ACT, SAT, GRE, and IQ tests)

anonymous · Answer

its arithmetic series or sequecne and its not mutiple choice.

anonymous · Answer

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this is geometric series