last question! PLEASE HELP!

Find the 7th term of the sequence 32, 16, 8...

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last question! PLEASE HELP!

Find the 7th term of the sequence 32, 16, 8...

anonymous · Answer

@kropot72 
Would you mind helping me with one more? I did this one, but i think i did it wrong.. What formula do i use?

kropot72 · Answer

The n^th term is found from the following formula:
$$n ^{th}\ term=ar ^{n-1}$$
where a is the first term (32 in this case) and r is the common ratio.
$$r=\frac{16}{32}=?$$

anonymous · Answer

I don't think i'm doing this one right.. I keep getting 0.5 as the answer?

kropot72 · Answer

The answer is 0.5. You are correct :)

anonymous · Answer

ohh, okay. i wasn't sure if i'm supposed to mulitply (32)(.5) first or do the exponents.

kropot72 · Answer

In the order of operations, exponents come before multiplication.

anonymous · Answer

Right, that's how i did it.
Thank you so much for helping(:

kropot72 · Answer

You're welcome :)