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Prove that the ratio of successive terms of a nonzerogeometric sequence is constant.
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A geometric sequence is a sequence of numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous term by a fixed, non-zero number called the ratio. We can represent the nth term of a geometric sequence as: \[a_n = a_1 \times r^{(n-1)}\] where Show more…
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