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Find an explicit formula for the nth term of the 2/9,0,2/9,.....

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According to the given sample, a_n (the nth term of the sequence) is (2/9) for odd n, beginning with n=1 and continuing: 1, 3, 5, 7, and the next term is always 0. How would you characterize 1, 3, 5, 7, ... ? These are all odd numbers. How would you characterize 2, 4, 6, 8, ... ? These are all even #s.

One way to summarize this behavior is to write the formula

a_n = (2/9) for odd n and 0 for even n.

There are other ways in which you could write such a formula.



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