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MariettaO [177]
3 years ago
7

Consider the following series. 1 9 1 18 1 27 1 36 1 45 Determine whether the series is convergent or divergent. Justify your ans

wer. Converges; the series is a constant multiple geometric series. Converges; the limit of the terms, an, is 0 as n goes to infinity. Diverges; the limit of the terms, an, is not 0 as n goes to infinity. Diverges; the series is a constant multiple of the harmonic series. If it is convergent, find the sum. (If the quantity diverges, enter DIVERGES.)
Mathematics
1 answer:
Vedmedyk [2.9K]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

<em>Diverges; the limit of the terms, an, is not 0 as n goes to infinity</em>

Step-by-step explanation:

<u>Convergence of Infinite Series</u>

The series is given as the terms

1 , 9 , 1 , 18 , 27 , 1 , 36 , 1 , 45 ...

For a series to be convergent, the limit of the general term an when n goes to infinity must be 0. In such cases, the sum of all terms tends to a fixed value.

Our series has two clearly different sequences, which define it as a piecewise general term:

If n is odd, then

a_n=1

Otherwise, an is an arithmetic series starting from 9 with a common difference of 9, that is

a_n=9+9(n/2-1)=4.5n

if n is even.

If we take the limit as n goes to infinity, we don't know which one should be selected, thus we must assume that any of them is a correct option, therefore both of them should converge.

The limit of the function

a_n=1

is 1 when n goes to infinity. Since it's not 0, this piece is not convergent and the entire series isn't either.

But it goes worse because of the limit of the second piece

a_n=4.5n

when n goes to infinity is infinite.

The answer is

<em>Diverges; the limit of the terms, an, is not 0 as n goes to infinity</em>

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