Chapter 9: Problem 26
Find the limit of the following sequences or determine that the limit does not exist. $$\left\\{\left(1-\frac{4}{n}\right)^{n}\right\\}$$
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Chapter 9: Problem 26
Find the limit of the following sequences or determine that the limit does not exist. $$\left\\{\left(1-\frac{4}{n}\right)^{n}\right\\}$$
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Evaluate the limit of the following sequences. $$a_{n}=\cos \left(0.99^{n}\right)+\frac{7^{n}+9^{n}}{63^{n}}$$
After many nights of observation, you notice that if you oversleep one night you tend to undersleep the following night, and vice versa. This pattern of compensation is described by the relationship $$x_{n+1}=\frac{1}{2}\left(x_{n}+x_{n-1}\right), \quad \text { for } n=1,2,3, \ldots$$ where \(x_{n}\) is the number of hours of sleep you get on the \(n\) th night and \(x_{0}=7\) and \(x_{1}=6\) are the number of hours of sleep on the first two nights, respectively. a. Write out the first six terms of the sequence \(\left\\{x_{n}\right\\}\) and confirm that the terms alternately increase and decrease. b. Show that the explicit formula $$x_{n}=\frac{19}{3}+\frac{2}{3}\left(-\frac{1}{2}\right)^{n}, \text { for } n \geq 0,$$ generates the terms of the sequence in part (a). c. What is the limit of the sequence?
Convergence parameter Find the values of the parameter \(p>0\) for which the following series converge. $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \ln \left(\frac{k}{k+1}\right)^{p}$$
Evaluate the limit of the following sequences. $$a_{n}=\int_{1}^{n} x^{-2} d x$$
Given that \(\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k^{4}}=\frac{\pi^{4}}{90},\) show that \(\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^{k+1}}{k^{4}}=\frac{7 \pi^{4}}{720}.\) (Assume the result of Exercise 63.)
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