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it converges
1/ 4 + 1/16 + ....
another question (2)
diverges
infinity
are you doing the sequences and series from calc 2 course? all the various tests?
what? @DanJS
what course are you taking?
depends on how to answer it
algebra 2
@DanJS
oh ok
yeah, so how would i answer them? @DanJS
I'm not to sure without using series tests, like the ratio test and so on, I would just put in a few entries for n=1,2,3,4 and see what each is approaching
obviously if you have a^n in the numerator, the series will go to infinity as n becomes large
okay
The first would be 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + 1/1024 ....1/n each term adds a smaller and smaller amount, the series converges to a number when n goes off to adding infinite many terms. like the 100th term would be 1/4^100 which is like 0.0000000000000000000000000000000004 something
add up like the first 5 or 6 terms and see what you get, after that each term impacts the sum less and less exponentially.
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