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Intensive Precalculus Homework

 
 
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Intensive Precalculus Homework
by Jyoti Mujumdar - Sunday, August 16, 2020, 11:07 AM
 

For question 16 in section 10.1 of the homework, the problem does not specify how many students initially received a referral from Khari. Without this information, we do not know the first term of the sequence.

 
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Re: Intensive Precalculus Homework
by David Reynoso - Monday, August 17, 2020, 11:42 AM
 

Hi Arnav!

The problem is referring the "story" at the very beginning of the section: "The site starts with one page created by Khari, who in turn, refers five friends that each create a page. Those five friends refer five more people each, all of whom develop pages, and so on."

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Re: Intensive Precalculus Homework
by Jyoti Mujumdar - Monday, August 17, 2020, 12:32 PM
 

I wasn't sure what the first term of the sequence was, and I thought the context might have that information. Thank you!