The ratio of dogs to cats in the neighborhood was 3 to 7. If there was 42 dogs in the neighborhood, how many cats were there?
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Step-by-step explanation:
The above sequence is a geometric sequence
For an nth term in a geometric sequence
where
n is the number of terms
a is the first term
r is the common ratio
From the question
a = 5
r = 10/5 = 2
Therefore the explicit formula for this sequence is
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