Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition

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Chapter 11 - Section 11.8 - Power Series - 11.8 Exercises - Page 752: 40

Answer

By the ratio test, the series is divergent for $x\ne a$, which means that the radius of the power series is $0=c$.

Work Step by Step

If $c=0$, we have that: $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty}|\frac{c_{n+1}}{c_{n}}|=+\infty$ Hence, we have that: $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty}|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_{n}}|=\lim\limits_{n \to \infty}(|\frac{c_{n+1}}{c_{n}}|x-a|)=0$ if $x=a$ and $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty}|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_{n}}|=\lim\limits_{n \to \infty}(|\frac{c_{n+1}}{c_{n}}|x-a|)=+\infty$ if $x\ne a$. Thus, we have by the ratio test the fact that the series is divergent for $x\ne a$, which gives us the radius of the power series: $0=c$
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