Which formula does NOT describe the sequence 8, 6, 3, –1, –6, … ?

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8 0

<span> To get an explicit formula, we need to find an expression which gives the n-th term without having to compute earlier terms in the sequence. Looking at the numbers, and from the recursive formula, we see that the sequence is built by subtracting n from the previous term. This is similar to the triangular number sequence 1,3,6,10,15,... which has the explicit formula a_n = n(n+1)/2. In our case we are subtracting n from the previous term, so we multiply by -1/2 instead of 1/2. However, we also need to add a constant term to reproduce the numbers of the sequence. We can write a_1 = -1(2)/2 + c = 8. Therefore, c = 9.
So the explict formula is:
a_n = -n(n+1)/2 + 9</span>

lara [203]3 years ago

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(A) We can see this as separation of variables or just a linear ODE of first grade, then $0=y'-2y=\frac{dy}{dt}-2y\Rightarrow \frac{dy}{dt}=2y \Rightarrow \frac{1}{2y}dy=dt \ \Rightarrow \int \frac{1}{2y}dy=\int dt \Rightarrow \ln |y|^{1/2}=t+C \Rightarrow |y|^{1/2}=e^{\ln |y|^{1/2}}=e^{t+C}=e^{C}e^t} \Rightarrow y=ke^{2t}$ . With this answer we see that the set of solutions of the ODE form a vector space over, where vectors are of the form $e^{2t}$ with $t$ real.

(B) Proceeding and the previous item, we obtain $1=y'-2y=\frac{dy}{dt}-2y\Rightarrow \frac{dy}{dt}=2y+1 \Rightarrow \frac{1}{2y+1}dy=dt \ \Rightarrow \int \frac{1}{2y+1}dy=\int dt \Rightarrow 1/2\ln |2y+1|=t+C \Rightarrow |2y+1|^{1/2}=e^{\ln |2y+1|^{1/2}}=e^{t+C}=e^{C}e^t \Rightarrow y=ke^{2t}/2-1/2$ . Which is not a vector space with the usual operations (this is because $-1/2$ ), in other words, if you sum two solutions you don't obtain a solution.

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(D) Using C, let be $y=me^{3t}$ we obtain that it must satisfies $3^2m-4m=1\Rightarrow m=1/5$ and then the general solution is $y=k_1e^{2t}+k_2e^{-2t}+e^{3t}/5$ with $k_1,k_2\in\mathbb{R}$ , and as in (B) the set of solutions does not form a vector space (same reason! as in (B)).