Question

What are the next three terms of the following sequence? -2,-1,-1/2,-1/4

Answer 1

Hint to get the next term you multiply by a certain farction

Answer 2

* fraction

Answer 3

would the next one be -1/6 or -1/8 somthing like that?

Answer 4

one of those is correct
to find the common ratio r divide the second term by the first

Answer 5

oops - divide the first term by the second I should have said

Answer 6

but that would just get me 2?

Answer 7

-1 / -2 = ?

Answer 8

every term divide by 2 so last term/2 is ans

Answer 9

-1/2

Answer 10

to get the next term divide by 2 (as Ex.Mohd said) or multiply by 1/2 (which is the same thing)

Answer 11

its a geometric sequence with common ratio 1/2

Answer 12

so is the next term 1/4

Answer 13

no the next term
is -1/4 * 1/2

Answer 14

ohhh i was adding

Answer 15

keep on multiplying by 1/2 to get the nest term(s)

Answer 16

oops

Answer 17

okay thanks

Answer 18

yw