SOLUTION: Find the 97th term for the sequence: -3, -6, -12 I got as far as: a1=-3 r=2 an=3 x 2^n-1

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Question 1082582: Find the 97th term for the sequence: -3, -6, -12
I got as far as: a1=-3 r=2
an=3 x 2^n-1

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
-3, -6, -12
If I say the general form for the sequence is:

n = 1,2,3,4 . . .
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Find

This is too big a number for my caculator
There might be an online calculator that
can do this.

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