SOLUTION: Please help..What does it mean "the sum of the terms involving the odd powers of r converges to 3 (ar+ar^3+ar^5+...)? Thank you.

Question 1093021: Please help..What does it mean "the sum of the terms involving the odd powers of r converges to 3 (ar+ar^3+ar^5+...)? Thank you.
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It means that they talk about the sum of this geometric progression

a*r + a*r ^3 + a*r^5 + a*r^7 + . . . 

which is taken over all odd powers of "r", and this sum does converge to 3.

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