009C Sample Midterm 3

This is a sample, and is meant to represent the material usually covered in Math 9C for the midterm. An actual test may or may not be similar.

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 Problem 1 

Test if the following sequence ${a_{n}}$ converges or diverges.

If it converges, also find the limit of the sequence.

$a_{n}=\left({\frac {n-7}{n}}\right)^{\frac {1}{n}}$

 Problem 2 

For each the following series find the sum, if it converges.

If you think it diverges, explain why.

(a)  ${\frac {1}{2}}-{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3}}+{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3^{2}}}-{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3^{3}}}+{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3^{4}}}-{\frac {1}{2\cdot 3^{5}}}+\cdots$

(b)  $\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\,{\frac {3}{(2n-1)(2n+1)}}$

 Problem 3 

Test if each the following series converges or diverges.

Give reasons and clearly state if you are using any standard test.

(a)  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }}\,{\frac {n!}{(3n+1)!}}$

(b)  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=2}^{\infty }}\,{\frac {\sqrt {n}}{n^{2}-3}}$

 Problem 4 

Test the series for convergence or divergence.

(a)  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }}\,(-1)^{n}\sin {\frac {\pi }{n}}$

(b)  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=1}^{\infty }}\,(-1)^{n}\cos {\frac {\pi }{n}}$

 Problem 5 

Find the radius of convergence and the interval of convergence of the series.

(a)  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }}{\frac {(-1)^{n}x^{n}}{n+1}}$

(b)  ${\displaystyle \sum _{n=0}^{\infty }}{\frac {(x+1)^{n}}{n^{2}}}$

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