what you do with a term to get to the next term
the ratio between two consecutive terms ... -8 / 24 = ?
What is the common ratio of the geometric series below?
24 + (-8) + 8/3 + (-8/9) +...
I don't understand this, can someone help explain how I do this?
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-3, but it's not the same for the jump of -8 and 8/3... that'd be -1/3
The ratio between -8 and 24 is not -3, it's -1/3, which is correct. 24 times -1/3 is -8, -8 times -1/3 is 8/3, and so on. (It's much easier to solve these problems when you for multiplication instead of division.) If you are looking for division, then you would divide by -3: 24 divided by -3 is -8, -8 divided by -3 is 8/3, and so on (the same pattern as above).
i dunno :/ :/ maybe its 3?
BDA
B. -1/3 D. 5,592,405/2 C. (cant write out its too weird :P)
So ya, its B D C
So ya, its B D C
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