SOLUTION: Find the possible explicit rule for the nth term of the sequence, then find the 10th term. 1, -.5, 1/3, -1/4, 1/5,... Thank you in advance!

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Question 958579: Find the possible explicit rule for the nth term of the sequence, then find the 10th term.
1, -.5, 1/3, -1/4, 1/5,...
Thank you in advance!

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Looks like alternating signs of reciprocals of integers,




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