SOLUTION: What is the common ratio
of the geometric sequence
Shown Below?
-2, 4, -8, 16
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Question 1025517: What is the common ratio
of the geometric sequence
Shown Below?
-2, 4, -8, 16
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Notice you are multiplying by -2 each time.
Thus -2 is the common ratio.
Another way of finding this is to divide
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