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Which of the following is a geometric sequence?

Which of the following is a geometric sequence?-example-1
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Answer:

its D

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The key thing to look for to determine whether a sequence is geometric is to see whether the ratio between consecutive terms - the number I would multiply one term by to get the next - is constant.

By inspection, we see that the fourth answer choice satisfies that, as
(81)/(27)=(27)/(9)=(9)/(3)=(3)/(1)=3. Why not the first? We have
2=(12)/(6)\\e(6)/(2)=3.

The third choice is not a geometric sequence, but rather an arithmetic sequence, where the difference between consecutive terms is constant. Just to make sure that it isn't geometric, we compute
(14)/(9)\\e(9)/(4).

The second sequence is not geometric (although it does eventually converge to 1, but not its corresponding series), as
(4)/(3)=(2/3)/(1/2)\\e(3/4)/(2/3)=(9)/(8).

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