A growing start-up company has 16 times as many employees each year as it did the previous year. If you list the number of employees the company has each year, what kind of sequence will you see?

Question

A) arithmetic
B) geometric
C) both
D) neither

Answer 1

The situation describes a company that has 16 times as many employees each year as it did the previous year. This means that the number of employees grows by a consistent multiple each year, which characterizes a geometric sequence.

In a geometric sequence, each term is found by multiplying the previous term by a fixed number (in this case, 16).

Therefore, the correct answer is:

B) geometric