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Is this an arithmetic or geometricsequence?Starting at 10, each new term is 5/2 times the previous term.

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Solution:

Given:

First term = 10

Each new term is 5/2 times the previous term.

This implies that;

[tex]\begin{gathered} first\text{ term, }a=10 \\ second\text{ term}=\frac{5}{2}\times10=25 \\ third\text{ term}=\frac{5}{2}\times25=62.5 \\ fourth\text{ term}=\frac{5}{2}\times62.5=156.25 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Calculate the common ratio between the successive terms,

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{25}{10}=\frac{62.5}{25}=\frac{156.25}{62.5}=2.5 \\ \\ Hence,\text{ }r=2.5 \end{gathered}[/tex]

Since the successive terms are increasing by a common ratio, the sequence is a geometric sequence.