SOLUTION: Predict the general term, or nth term, for the sequence: 1, square root 3, square root 5, square root 7, 3...
I know that the answer equation is An= 1r^n-1 but I can't figure ou
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Question 424575: Predict the general term, or nth term, for the sequence: 1, square root 3, square root 5, square root 7, 3...
I know that the answer equation is An= 1r^n-1 but I can't figure out what the r term would be. Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There seems to be a square root involved in every term (we can write 1 as ), so we can write and figure out a good expression for k.
Note that k is an increasing arithmetic sequence with common difference 2. We can write k = 2n - 1 since the first k is 2(1) - 1 = 1, so our sequence should be .
