Hi everyone,
Firstly, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum (pre-calculus isn't a term I'm familiar with.)
I have a question about a geometric series that I'm stuck on. I've had a go at entering it here but I'm pretty hopeless at the LaTex package, so instead I've attached the question as an image. Please have a look and see if you might be able to help - I'd be really grateful.
So far I have u1 = 108 and u2 = 72, and the sum to infinity = 324.
It's the last bit I'm stuck on, finding the smallest value of k for which the sum of terms between k and infinity is less than 2.5. (the answer is 13)
I tried Sk < 2.5 , re-arranged and simplified, then took logs of both sides so that the variable k wasn't a power, and rearranged to get k on it's own.
(With Sk being the formula for the sum of "k" terms, and using 108 as the value for a/first term)
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