SOLUTION: Identify wheter the pattern is arithmetic, geometric, or neither. 1,1/2,1/4,1/8,1/6......

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Question 610742: Identify wheter the pattern is arithmetic, geometric, or neither. 1,1/2,1/4,1/8,1/6......
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If that 1/6 is really 1/16, then you're dividing each term in half or multiplying each term by 1/2. So this tells us that this sequence is geometric.

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