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Hi Sarah. Here's a hint: it is a "geometric sequence". So that means that each successive term is multiplied by the same factor. For example, 9, 27, 81, 243, ... has a common factor of 3 (each term is just the last term times 3). Yours is like this. Geometric sequences have an nth term of the form a fn-1 where a is the first term, f is the common factor and n is the number of the term (nth term). With my example, the nth term is 9 3n-1, which reduces to 3n+1. Can you do something like this for your sequence? Stephen La Rocque.> | ||||||||||||
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