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Natali [406]
3 years ago
8

The starting salary at a company is $42,000 per year. The company automatically gives a raise of 3% per year. Write a recursive

definition for the geometric sequence formed by the salary increase?
Mathematics
1 answer:
cricket20 [7]3 years ago
8 0
To solve this, we are going to use the recursive formula for a geometric sequence: a_{n}=a_{1}r^{n-1}
where
a_{n} is the nth term of the geometric sequence.
a_{1} is the first term of the geometric sequence.
r is the common ratio 
n is the position of the term in the sequence. 

We know that the starting salary is $42,000, so a_{1}=42000. Now, to find the common ratio r, we need to find the next term in the sequence first:
We know from our problem that t<span>he company automatically gives a raise of 3% per year, so the next term in the sequence will be 42000 + 3%(42000) = 42000 + 1260 = 43260. Remember that the common ratio is the current term of the geometric sequence divided by the previous term of the sequence; we know that our current term is 43260 and the previous term is 42000, so:
</span>r= \frac{43260}{42000}
r=1.03
<span>Now we can plug the values in our recursive formula:
</span>a_{n}=a_{1}r^{n-1}
a_{n}=42000(1.03)^{n-1}

We can conclude that the recursive definition for the geometric sequence formed by the salary increase is: a_{n}=42000(1.03)^{n-1}
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