Thomas' Calculus 13th Edition

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Chapter 10: Infinite Sequences and Series - Questions to Guide Your Review - Page 635: 12

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

See text: last paragraph of section 2, with subheading "Reindexing". Reindexing a series does not alter its convergence, as long as we preserve the order of its terms. An example is reindexing a geometric sequence converting from $\displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^{\infty}r^{n-1}$ to $\displaystyle \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}r^{n}$. Both expressions represent the same sum of terms, $1+r+r^{2}+r^{3}+...$ but the starting index $n=0$ has a simpler term under the summation. We could have written this as $\displaystyle \sum_{n=7}^{\infty}r^{n-7},\ \displaystyle \sum_{n=-2}^{\infty}r^{n+2}$ We select indices so that the general term in the summation expression is as simple as possible.
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