Friday, 24 July 2015

convergence divergence - Establishing an inequality between the first term of an infinite geometric series and the infinte sum?

An infinite geometric series has the first term a and sum to infinity b, where b 0. Prove that a lies between 0 and 2b.



Since the series converges, r has to be between 0 and 1 (using the geometric series formula, i.e a(1rn)1r):The sum=b=a1r, where r is the common ratio.bbr=a



Ok. Now what? I'm stuck.

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