It is exponentially each time you are dividing by 4/3
Answer:
The answer is True.
Step-by-step explanation:
- <u>Estimate the Answer Before Solving Having a general idea of a ballpark answer .</u>
- <u>Or the problem lets students know if their actual answer is reasonable or not.</u>
Your sequence
-8, 16/3, -32/9, 64/27
is a geometric sequence with first term -8 and common ratio
(16/3)/(-8) = (-32/9)/(16/3) = -2/3
The general term an of a geometric sequence with first term a1 and ratio r is given by
an = a1·r^(n-1)
For your sequence, this is
an = -8·(-2/3)^(n-1)
Recall Euler's theorem: if 
, then
where 
is Euler's totient function.
We have 
- in fact, 
for any 
since 
and 
share no common divisors - as well as 
.
Now,
where the 
are positive integer coefficients from the binomial expansion. By Euler's theorem,
so that
