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Consider the sequence 12,23,34,45,...,kk+1,.....

(a) What happens to the terms of this sequence as kgets larger and larger? Express your answer in limit notation.

(b) Use a calculator to find a sufficiently larger value of kso that every term past the kthterm of this sequence will be within0.01unit of1.

Short Answer

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Part (a) The limit notation is limk→∞kk+1=1.

Part (b) The sufficiently large value ofkisk=9.

Step by step solution

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Part (a) Step 1. Given information.

Given sequence is:

12,23,34,45,...,kk+1,....

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Part (a) Step 2. Find the terms of this sequence as k gets larger and larger in limit notation.

The kthterm is:

f(k)=kk+1

Make the table for the value of kk+1when the value of kgets larger and larger.

k 0 25 50 100 1000 10000
kk+1 1 0.96150.98030.990.9990.9999

From the above table as kgets larger and larger, the quantity kk+1approaches to 1.

So, the required answer in limit notation islimk→∞kk+1=1.

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Part (b) Step 1. Given information.

Given sequence is:

12,23,34,45,...,kk+1,....

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Part (b) Step 2. Find a sufficiently large value of k.

First write the kthterm and k+1thterm:

f(k)=kk+1f(k+1)=k+1k+2

It is given that every term past the kthof this sequence will be with in 0.01.

f(k+1)-f(k)<0.01k+1k+2-kk+1<0.01k2+1+2k-k2-2k(k+2)(k+1)<0.011(k+2)(k+1)<0.0110.01<(k+2)(k+1)100<k2+3k+2

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Part (b) Step 3. Continue the above step.

k2+3k+2=100k2+3k-98=0k=-3±32-4×1×-982×1=-3±9+3922=-3±4012k≈-3±20.022

k≈-11.51and k≈8.51

For every k>9, the terms will be:

For k=9, 1011-910≈0.009

Hence, the sufficiently large value ofkisk=9.

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