Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 10 - Section 10.3 - Geoetric Sequences and Series - Exercise Set - Page 1076: 100

Answer

The sum is $10$. See the graph below:

Work Step by Step

From the graph, we can observe that the horizontal asymptote of the function is $y=10$. Consider the series, $4+4\times 0.6+4{{\left( 0.6 \right)}^{2}}+4{{\left( 0.6 \right)}^{3}}+\cdots $ The first term of the series is ${{a}_{1}}=4$ and common ratio is $r=0.6$. The sum of an infinite geometric series with the first term ${{a}_{1}}$ and common ratio r is given by: $S=\frac{{{a}_{1}}}{1-r}$ Substituting ${{a}_{1}}=4$ and $r=0.6$, we get, $\begin{align} & S=\frac{4}{1-0.6} \\ & =\frac{4}{0.4} \\ & =10 \end{align}$ So, the sum of the infinite series is 10.
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