Geometric Sequences

Which kind of sequence has a common ratio?

• Arithmetic
• Geometric

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What does r represent?

• Radical

• Common difference

• Common ratio

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Find the common ratio for the geometric sequence.

• 10
• 1/2
• 2
• 4

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What are the next 3 terms in the following geometric sequence:

512, 256, 128, ___, ___, ___, ...

• 1024, 2048, 4096

• 32, 8, 2

• 64, 32, 16

• 92, 66, 38

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Is the sequence 2, 4, 12, 48,... geometric?

• yes
• no

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Find the common ratio: 4, -16, 64, -256, ...

• r = -4
• r = 2
• r = -2
• r = 4

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Write the explicit formula for the geometric sequence.

• a_n = 4(3)^n-1
• a_n = 3(4)^n-1
• a_n = -4(3)^n-1
• a_n = 3(-4)^n-1

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The next term of the geometric sequence

4, 16, 64, ...

is

• 256

• 132

• 120

• 150

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Which of the following is a geometric sequence?

• 1, 4, 7, 10, ...

• 1, 2, 6, 24, ...

• 1, 1, 2, 3, ...

• 1, 3, 9, 27, ...

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Find the 6th term of the following geometric sequence:

2, 8, 32, 128, ...

• 8192

• 2048

• 512

• 128

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