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kairosymister kairosymister
  • 07-02-2017
  • Mathematics
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Find the sum of a 9-term geometric sequence when the first term is 4 and the last term is 1,024

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LammettHash
LammettHash LammettHash
  • 07-02-2017

\(a_1=4\)
\(a_2=ra_1=4r\)
\(a_3=ra_2=r^2a_1=4r^2\)
...
\(a_9=ra_8=\cdots=r^8a_1=4r^8\)

So you have

\(1024=4r^8\implies 256=r^8\implies r=2\)

So the sum is

\(4+8+16+\cdots+512+1024\)
\(4(1+2+4+\cdots+128+256)\)
\(4(2^0+2^1+2^2+\cdots+2^7+2^8)\)
\(4\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^92^{i-1}\)
\(4\times\dfrac{1-2^9}{1-2}\)
\(2044\)

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