What is the sum of a 7-term geometric series if the first term is 6, the last term is 24,576, and the common ratio is -4?
1 Answer
Sep 30, 2015
Explanation:
There may be some nice formula for this (if so, someone please add it as a better answer).
To avoid too much thought I simply decided to evaluate the 7 terms and sum them (and because I'm feeling lazy, I let my spreadsheet to the actual calculations).
Note that there is redundant information in this question; we didn't need to be told both that there were
