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Alenkinab [10]
3 years ago
9

How would I write this as a geometric recursive and explicit formula? Algebra 2

Mathematics
1 answer:
Kisachek [45]3 years ago
5 0
Denote the sequence by a_n with n\ge1.

Recursively:

The first number is a_1=8, and each successive number is twice the previous one. So a_2=16, a_3=32, a_4=64, ... .

In other words,

a_2=2a_1
a_3=2a_2
a_4=2a_3

and so in general,

a_n=2a_{n-1}

Explicitly:

We can arrive at this formula by, in a way, working backwards. If a_n=2a_{n-1}, that means a_{n-1}=2a_{n-2}, and so a_n=2(2a_{n-2})=2^2a_{n-2}, and so on. We would end up with

a_n=2a_{n-1}=2^2a_{n-2}=2^3a_{n-3}=\cdots=2^{n-2}a_2=2^{n-1}a_1

(You'll notice a pattern here: the exponent of the 2 and the index of the earlier term in the sequence add up to n. For example, 2^1a_{n-1}\implies 1+(n-1)=n.)

or simply

a_n=2^{n-1}\cdot8

Then the 15th term is obtained immediately by evaluating this rule at n=15. We get

a_{15}=2^{15-1}\cdot8=2^{14}\cdot2^3=2^{17}=131,072
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