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alex41 [277]
3 years ago
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(a) Each person has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so on. By summing a geometric sequence, find t

he total number of ancestors a person has going back (1) five generations, (2) 10 generations. normal growth pattern for children aged 3-11 follows an arithmetic sequence. Given a child measures 98.2 cm at age 3, and 109.8 cm at age 5, what is the common difference of the arithmetic sequence? What would the child's height at age 8 be?
Mathematics
1 answer:
ioda3 years ago
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Answer:

The person has62 ancestors going back five generations.

The person has 2046 ancestors going back ten generations.

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The child's height at age 8 would be 127.2 cm.

Step-by-step explanation:

The first sequence is a geometric sequence.

In a geometric sequence, each term is found by multiplying the previous term by a constant r.

We write a geometric sequence like this:

{a, ar, ar^{2}, ar^{3},...}

Where a is the first term and r is the commom factor.

The sum of the first n elements of a geometric sequence is:

S = \frac{a(1 - r^{n})}{1-r}

So, for the first exercise, our geometric sequence is:

{2,4,8,...},

so a = 2 and r = 2.

1)Find the total number of ancestors a person has going back five generations

S when n = 5, so:

S = \frac{a(1 - r^{n})}{1-r} = \frac{2*(1-2^{5})}{1-2} = 62

The person has 62 ancestors going back five generations.

2) Going back 10 generations:

S when n = 10, so:

S = \frac{a(1 - r^{n})}{1-r} = \frac{2*(1-2^{10})}{1-2} = 2046

The person has 2046 ancestors going back ten generations.

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The following question is related to an arithmetic sequence:

An arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers such that the difference of any two successive members of the sequence is a constant.

If the first term of an arithmetic sequence is a1 and the common difference is d, then the nth term of the sequence is given by:

a_{n} = a_{1} + (n-1)d.

We have the following sequence

98.2, a_{2}, 109.8, a_{4}, a_{5}, a_{6}, in which a_{6} is the child's height at age 8.

We have that:

d = \frac{109.8 - 98.2}{2} = 5.8

So

a_{6} = a_{1} + 5d = 98.2 + 5*5.8 = 127.2.

The child's height at age 8 would be 127.2 cm.

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