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Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the following series, to the nearest integer.24,96,384, ...

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s\text{ }=\frac{a(r^n-1)^{}}{r-1}

a = 24

n= 10

r = 96/24 = 4

Replacing:


s=(24(4^(10)-1))/(4-1)=(24\cdot1,048,575)/(3)

s = 8,388,600

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