Sick-quences!! (2)

Algebra Level 5


The answer is 16.

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Jaiveer Shekhawat
Jan 17, 2015

Or else we can first obtain the value of nth term then can put it into sigma form and apply property of G.P.

Trishit Chandra - 6 years, 4 months ago
Aareyan Manzoor
Feb 9, 2015

first of, by GP,
1 + 1 2 + . . . 1 2 n = 1 ( 1 1 2 n + 1 1 1 2 = 2 1 2 n 1+\dfrac{1}{2}+...\dfrac{1}{2^n}=\dfrac{1(1-\dfrac{1}{2^{n+1}}}{1-\dfrac{1}{2}}=2- \dfrac{1}{2^n} now, writing in summation form, n = 0 ( 1 1 1 n ( 2 1 2 n ) ) = n = 0 ( 2 1 1 n 1 2 2 n ) \sum_{n=0}^\infty (\dfrac{1}{11^n}(2- \dfrac{1}{2^n}))= \sum_{n=0}^\infty (\dfrac{2}{11^n}- \dfrac{1}{22^n}) now write it as 2 n = 0 ( 1 1 1 n ) n = 0 1 2 2 n 2\sum_{n=0}^\infty (\dfrac{1}{11^n})-\sum_{n=0}^\infty \dfrac{1}{22^n} let S 1 = 1 + 1 11 + 1 1 1 2 . . . . . S_1 =1+\dfrac{1}{11}+\dfrac{1}{11^2}..... S 1 = 1 + 1 11 S 1 S 1 = 11 10 S_1=1+\dfrac{1}{11}S_1\longrightarrow S_1=\dfrac{11}{10} let S 2 = 1 + 1 22 + 1 2 2 2 . . . . S_2 =1+\dfrac{1}{22}+\dfrac{1}{22^2}.... S 2 = 1 + 1 22 S 2 S 2 = 22 21 S_2=1+\dfrac{1}{22}S_2\longrightarrow S_2=\dfrac{22}{21} now put these values, 2 ( 11 10 ) 22 21 = 121 105 2(\dfrac{11}{10})-\dfrac{22}{21}=\dfrac{121}{105} and 121 105 = 16 121-105=\boxed{16}

Prakhar Bindal
Jan 20, 2015

You can simply multiply by 1/11 and shift one term and subtract them.then again you repeat this process.you will automatically get a geometric progression and apply the sum of infinite Geometric progression and after doing little bit manipulations you will get 121/105 as answer.

by this you are deriving formula for GP

simply observe and apply infinite gp

r = 0 ( 2 1 2 n ) 1 1 1 n \sum _{ r=0 }^{ \infty }{ (2-\frac { 1 }{ { 2 }^{ n } } )\frac { 1 }{ 11^{ n } } }

Gautam Sharma - 6 years, 4 months ago

Did the same .

vineet golcha - 5 years, 10 months ago

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