Meaning of Geometric Progression


 
 
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Meaning Of Geometric Progression (GP)

The terms of a sequence are said to be in Geometric progression (GP) when they increase or decrease by a constant factor.

This constant factor is called the common ratio, denoted by r an can be found by dividing any term of the sequence by the preceding term.

e.g., The sequence 1, 3, 9, 27, 81, ..., is a geometric progression whose first term is 1 and common ration is 3.

A geometric progression is represented by a, ar, ar^2, ... . ar^{n-1}

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