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Find an explicit formula for the $n$ th term of the sequence satisfying $a_{1}=0$ and $a_{n}=2 a_{n-1}+1$ for $n \geq 2.$
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Step 1: First, we need to find the first few terms of the sequence using the given recursive formula $a_{n}=2 a_{n-1}+1$ and the initial condition $a_{1}=0$. Show more…
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