Sequences and Series

Arithmetic Geometric
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first term first term
❑
𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡
first
first𝑛
𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎¿
term
term𝑎(1− 𝑟 𝑛
1)
𝑎𝑆=𝑎
𝑎
𝑛𝑆 =
𝑛𝑆=𝑛=1 +(𝑛
=𝑎 1
1 ⋅1𝑟
(𝑎 1
−𝑎1)
+
𝑛 −
𝑛 )⋅ 𝑑

∑
𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡
𝑛 2 1− 1−𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎
𝑟𝑟
𝑎 𝑛= 𝑎1 ⋅ 𝑟 𝑛 − 1

❑
𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚¿
𝑎𝑛=𝑎1 +(𝑛 − 1) ⋅ 𝑑
𝑎 1 (1− 𝑟 𝑛 )
𝑆𝑛 =
𝑛
𝑆𝑛 = (𝑎 1+ 𝑎𝑛 )
𝐴𝑟𝑖𝑡h𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐=𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 1− 𝑟
2 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐=𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙
❑
𝑎1
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑇𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠=𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡− 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡+1 𝑆=
1− 𝑟
 1. Describe each using:
Sequence/Series; Arithmetic/Geometric; Finite/Infinite

2, 8, 14, 20, 26
 2. Describe each using:
Sequence/Series; Arithmetic/Geometric; Finite/Infinite

2, 8, 32, 128, …
 3. Describe each using:
Sequence/Series; Arithmetic/Geometric; Finite/Infinite

1 + 5 + 9 + ∙∙∙
 4. Describe each using:
Sequence/Series; Arithmetic/Geometric; Finite/Infinite

16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1
 5. Describe each using:
Sequence/Series; Arithmetic/Geometric; Finite/Infinite
6. Write in summation notation
7. Find the 15th term for the sequence:

12, 21, 30, 39, . . .

8. Find the 18th term for the sequence:

45, 37, 29, 21, . . .

9. Find the missing term of the arithmetic sequence
10.Find the missing terms of the arithmetic sequence
11. Find the 10 term for the sequence:
12. Find the 19th term for the sequence:
13. Find the missing term of the geometric sequence
14. Find the missing terms of the geometric sequence
15. Evaluate the sum of each series
16. Evaluate the sum of each series
17. Evaluate the sum of each series
18. Evaluate the sum of each series
19. Evaluate the sum of each series
20. You invested money in a fund and each
month you receive a payment for your
investment. Over the first four months, you
received 500 pesos, 570 pesos, 640 pesos, 710
pesos. If this pattern continues, how much will
you receive in the 12th month and who much
will you receive for the entire year? Write an
explicit equation to model the problem.
21. You saved 5000 pesos this year. Each year you
plan to save 5% more than the previous year.

Write an explicit formula to model this situation.

How much will you save in the 8 year?
How much will you have saved totally over years,
assume you do not spend anything?
22. You drop a ball from a staircase that is
36 feet high. By the time you get down the
stairs to measure the height of the bounce,
the ball has bounced four times and has a
height of 2.25 feet after its fourth bounce.
How high did the ball bounce after it first
hit the floor? (hint the bouncing ball creates
a geometric sequence)
23. What is the 25th term of a Fibonacci
Sequence?