nth term of a series

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Find the 20th term of the series

1 , 1 3 , 1 5 , \large 1, \ \frac 13, \ \frac 15, \ \cdots

1 41 \frac{1}{41} 1 40 \frac{1}{40} 1 39 \frac{1}{39} 2 41 \frac{2}{41}

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2 solutions

Ananth Jayadev
Dec 27, 2016

The sequence here is just n = 1 20 1 2 n 1 \sum _{ n=1 }^{ 20 }{ \frac { 1 }{ 2n-1 } }

So, when you plug 20 into the series, you get 1 / 39 1/39

Matin Naseri
Aug 24, 2018

1 2 n 1 \frac{1}{2n-1} Each term follows the above formula for next term.

1 2 × 20 1 1 39 \frac{1}{2×20-1}{\implies}{\frac{1}{39}}

Hence the answer is 1 39 \color{#3D99F6}{\boxed{\frac{1}{39}}}

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