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Submitted by Rishinderjit on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 12:36

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I started a new forum as I saw none in relation to this assignment.

There is a small error in the hints and answers. Under the warm-up part 3, a=3, n=9, and r=1/2 are identified correctly, but when the figures are used in the summation formula it shows that (1/2)^9 = 1/1024 as opposed to 1/512.

Submitted by Hypatia on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 07:10

Thanks for pointing this out. The actual error is that we should have $n=10$ as there are 10 terms from $i=0$ to $i=9$ (inclusive).

Thanks again!

Submitted by Rishinderjit on Wed, 09/05/2018 - 12:55

More than happy. I feel quite foolish I didn't spot that as well.

Thank you.

Submitted by Hypatia on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 08:58

Thanks again!

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