1. Convergent/Divergent Series help!

I have a couple of Q's I'm stuck on help and help would be MUCH appreciated! I have to use either the limit comparison or the comparison test only -
Sum (n=1 to infinity) n/(2^n)
Sum (n=1 to infinity) 1/(2 + n^0.5)

2. Originally Posted by amywilliams99
I have a couple of Q's I'm stuck on help and help would be MUCH appreciated! I have to use either the limit comparison or the comparison test only -
Sum (n=1 to infinity) n/(2^n)
Sum (n=1 to infinity) 1/(2 + n^0.5)
Consider:
$\frac{n}{2^n}=\frac{n}{\sqrt{2}^n}\cdot\frac{1}{\s qrt{2}^n}$
Now I assume that you know that $\frac{n}{\sqrt{2}^n}\rightarrow 0$, for $n\rightarrow \infty$, because $\sqrt{2}>1$.
Thus, there exists an $n_0\in\mathbb{N}$, such that $\frac{n}{\sqrt{2}^n}<1$, for all $n>n_0$, and thus the tail of your first series can be compared with the tail of the geometric serie $\sum_{n=n_0+1}\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}^n}<\infty$.

As to your second series my guess is that for sufficiently large $n$, we will have that $\frac{1}{2+\sqrt{n}}\geq \frac{1}{n}$, thus you can compare it with the divergent harmonic series.
To check whether $\frac{1}{2+\sqrt{n}}\geq \frac{1}{n}$ holds true for sufficiently large $n$, you just note that $n\geq 2\sqrt{n}\geq 2+\sqrt{n}$, if $n\geq 4$.