Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305071751
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-175-9

Chapter 12 - Review - Exercises - Page 890: 49

Answer

$S_{n}=\dfrac {1\times \left( 1-\left( 0.9\right) ^{5}\right) }{1-0.9}=4.0951$

Work Step by Step

if it is arithmetic sequence then $a_{n+1}+a_{n-1}=2a_{n}$ if it is geometric sequence then $a_{n+1}\times a_{n-1}=a^{2}_{n}$ $1+\left( 0.9\right) ^{2}=1.81\neq 2\times 0.9$ so this is not arithmetic sequence $\left( 0.9\right) ^{2}\times 1=\left( 0.9\right) ^{2}$ so this is geometric sequence Sum of geometric sequence is $S_{n}=\dfrac {a\left( 1-r^{n}\right) }{1-r};r=\dfrac {0.9}{1}=0.9;n=5;a=1$ So we get $S_{n}=\dfrac {1\times \left( 1-\left( 0.9\right) ^{5}\right) }{1-0.9}=4.0951$
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