Instead of doing your problem for you, I will do one EXACTLY IN EVERY
DETAIL like yours, so that when you do yours, you can use this as a
model.
I will find the sum of this infinite geometric series instead:
We should first check to see if it really is a geometric series, for sometimes
books contain errors/typos. If it is a geometric series then this must be true:
So we calculate the three ratio to see if they are all equal:
They are all the same so it is a geometric series with common ratio =
It is a geometric series with a defined sum when taken to infinitely many
terms because the ratio is greater than -1 and less than +1.
, where a1 = 1st term =
Answer to this problem =
Now do your problem EXACTLY the same way.
Edwin