SOLUTION: The nth term of a geometric term is 3^-n, the unlimited sum of the sequence is? Can you please help me to solve this, I have no idea how to. Thank you!

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Question 764513: The nth term of a geometric term is 3^-n, the unlimited sum of the sequence is?
Can you please help me to solve this, I have no idea how to. Thank you!

Answer by ramkikk66(644)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

nth term is given is 3^-n or 1/3^n. So the first term is 1/3, the second is 1/3^2
and so on.

The series is: 1/3,1/9,1/27... to infinity.

It is an infinite geometric progression with 1st term a as 1/3 and the common 
ratio r as 1/3.

The formula for the sum to infinity of such a progression is given by
S = a / (1 - r) (I'm not including the proof for this here)

So here it is 


The answer is 

:)

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