SOLUTION: what is the common ratio of 1^2,2^2,3^2?

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Question 716610: what is the common ratio of 1^2,2^2,3^2?
Answer by KMST(5328)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is no common ratio.
That sequence is not a geometric sequence/progression.


It is not the same ratio.
Those ratios have nothing in common.
The sequence 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, ...
can be thought of as the sum of the arithmetic sequence of the odd numbers
with and gives you 1, 3, 5, 7, ...
gives you





and so on.

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