The trees at a national park have been increasing in numbers. There were 200 trees in the first year that the park started tracking them. Since then, there have been one fifth as many new trees each year. Create the sigma notation showing the infinite growth of the trees and find the sum, if possible.

Year
1
2
3
New trees
1000
200
40
will give medal

Question

The trees at a national park have been increasing in numbers. There were 200 trees in the first year that the park started tracking them. Since then, there have been one fifth as many new trees each year. Create the sigma notation showing the infinite growth of the trees and find the sum, if possible.

Year
1
2
3
New trees
1000
200
40
will give medal

anonymous · Answer

The bottom half is a table
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mallorysipp234 · Answer

@SolomonZelman could you help me with this? please

solomonzelman · Answer

you see that the number of new tree is going  times 1/5 each year

what are we making a sequence for, just the decrease of number of new trees or the sequence that shows the situation of each year (including the old trees) ?