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In this problem we're given three different alternating series and we want to figure out whether they diverge, converge absolutely, or converge conditionally.
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Our first series is sum from 1 to infinity of minus 1 to the n plus 1 over 5n plus 1.
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Now these terms decrease in size to 0 so the series converges by the alternating series test.
00:48
However, if we look at the sum of just 1 over 5n plus 1, this diverges.
01:01
I won't go through all the derivation but that could be done with the integral test or you could use a comparison to 1 over n, limit comparison to the sum of 1 over n.
01:20
So the series converges but not absolutely.
01:24
This is also called conditional convergence, not absolutely convergent.
01:39
Our second series we're looking at the sum of minus 4 to the nth power over n to the 6th.
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Here if we just look at the terms, limit as the n goes to infinity of 4 to the n over n to the 6th in absolute value.
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This is actually infinity.
02:09
The terms grow larger and larger so they don't approach 0.
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So the series diverges.
02:30
And the third series we're looking at involves a minus 1 to the n plus 1 and 4 plus n and 4 to the n and then dividing by n squared times 3 to the power of 2n.
02:54
Let's use the ratio test...