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This summary contains the key details about the document in 3 sentences: The document contains 8 problems about geometric sequences and their terms. It also contains 4 problems about series, their terms, and sums of terms. The problems involve finding common ratios, terms of sequences and series, and sums of series terms.

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Exercise 1

This summary contains the key details about the document in 3 sentences: The document contains 8 problems about geometric sequences and their terms. It also contains 4 problems about series, their terms, and sums of terms. The problems involve finding common ratios, terms of sequences and series, and sums of series terms.

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1.

Determine the 2nd and 3rd term of a geometric sequence:


a) T 1=5 and T 4=40
1 1
b) T 4= and T 8=
4 64
1
c) T 1=3 and T 1=
27
2. In the geometric sequence for which:
a) a=2 and r =3 , find the 5th term.
1
b) a=1 and r = , find the 6th term.
3
−1
c) a=11 and r = , find the 4th term.
3
3. Find the common ratio in the sequence of which:
a) The 6th term is 96 and first term is 3.
7
b) The 5th term is and the first term is 7.
81
4. Determine the fifth term and twelfth term of each of the following sequences:
a) 2 , 4 , 6 … .
5 25
b) 1 ,− , ;…
2 4
5. Determine the first three term of the geometric sequence of which:
a) The seventh term is 192 and the 2nd term is 6.
b) The sixth term is 486 and the third term is 18.
c) Determine the first three terms of the geometric sequence of which the 7th term is 1458
and the 4th term is 54.
d) the 6th term is 28 and 11th term is 896.
3
e) the 2nd term is 3 and the 4th term is 6
4
f) the 6th term is 96 and the common ratio is 2
g) the 5th term is 80 and the common ratio is−2
1 1
h) the 6th term is and the common ratio is .
81 3
6. The 9th term and the 6th term of a geometric sequence are 80 and 10 respectively.
a) Find the first term and the constant ratio.
b) Find the number of terms if the last term is 5120.
7. x +1; x−1; and x are the first three terms of a geometric sequence. Find the sequence.
8. x−4 ; x+ 2; and 3 x+ 1 are the 4th, 5th and the 6th term respectively of a geometric sequence.
Find the two possible values for:
a) The common ratio
b) The1st term
9. x−4 ; x+ 2; 3 x +1 are the first three terms of a geometric sequence. Determine the sequence if
x is positive.
10. t+ 1; 1−t ; 1−5 t ; … are the first three terms of a geometric sequence.
a) Determine the numerical value of t where t ≠ 0 .
b) Determine the sequence.
c) Determine the 10th term.
2
d) d) Which term equals 10 ?
3

Series
2
1. for a certain series, Sn=2n + n
a) S1
b) S2
c) S3
d) T1
e) T2
f) T3
g) Tn
h) What type of series is this?
1 n
2. for a certain series, sn= ( 3 −1 ) . Find the first four terms of the series.
2
3. Determine the sum of the first 10 terms of the series with general term:
T k =−3+2 k
4. Determine the sum of the first six terms of the series with general term
r
T r=3.2
5. If s20=140 and s2 1=162 , determine T 21
6. If s36=52 and s35=60 , determine T 36
7. If sn=a and sn−1=b , determine T n
2
8. If sn=n
a) Determine the first three terms of the series
b) Determine T n

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