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Which formula can be used to sum the first n terms of a geometric sequence?
Which of the following is the total number of pennies on Rows 1-4 (the first 32 squares)?
The last square of the chessboard is square 64.How many pennies are on square 64? 2^612^622^63
Which summation represents the total number of pennies on the chessboard?
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How many pennies are on the nth square?
The number of pennies on square 33 is greater thanless thanequal to the sum of ALL the pennies on the first half of the chess board.
The number of pennies on square 64 is greater thanless thanequal to the total number of pennies on the first 63 squares.
How many pennies are on the chessboard?
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Which of the following did you include?
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8
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16
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32
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64
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128
Compare your prediction with the total number of pennies on Row 1. How would you change your estimate? Is the result surprising?
My initial prediction was lower than the actual count of pennies on Row 1. To improve my estimate, I would count a small group of pennies and use that to better gauge the total across the row. The result was surprising because the pennies were packed much more tightly than I had anticipated.
Which of the following did you include?
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