Question

Define the type of sequence below.

Answer 1

Answer: A. Neither arithmetic nor geometric

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Explanation:

Going from the first term to the second, we add on -2

Then going from the second term to the third, we add on +2

This inconsistency (-2 vs +2) means we don't have a common difference, and therefore the sequence is not arithmetic.

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Now let's divide each term by their previous term

term2/term1 = 0/2 = 0

term3/term2 = 2/0 = undefined

We can stop here and conclude that we don't have a common ratio either, so this sequence is not geometric.

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Side note: The subsequence 0,2,4,6,... is arithmetic with common difference d = 2 because we add 2 to each term. It's that first 2 in the original sequence that breaks everything.

Answer 2

A Because yeah it’s just a