The 1025th term in this sequence is 1,22,4444,88888888,.......
praneeth bonu
14 Years agoGrade 12
2 Answers
Askiitians_Expert Yagyadutt
Approved Tutor Answer14 Years ago
Hello bonu !
Its a bit tricky ..!
See .. first term has ..1 digit ..1... 2^0
Second term has ....2 digit...22.....2^1
Third term has .....4 digits ....2^2
fourth term has ....8 digits ...2^3
So actually number of digits are in gp .. Hence in 1025 term ..we definitely have 2^1024 (isn't it ..! have doubt then ask).. ..and the digits of the number are actually the number of digit..interesting ! like ...22 ..(have two digit ..and digits are also 2 and 2) 4444 have 4 digits..and each digits are 4.. 88888888 have 8 digits ..and each digit is 8 .. The 1025 th term would have ..2^1024 digits ..and surely each digit would be ..2^1024 ..(like i explained) So suppose a=2^1024 .. So 1025th term would be .. (aaaaaa..........1024 times)..
--------------- Lets leave this queation at this point .. and let me explain about this .. any number can be written in GP format.. like .. 345 = 3X100 + 4X10 + 5X1 ( if instead of 3 ,4,5 ,,all digits are 3 ..then it become a perfect gp isn't it ? ) 333= 3[100+10+1] .. So we apply this concept here... ---------------
We have ... aaaaaaa......1024 times ...
So it would be expressed as .. = a [ 10^1023 + 10^1022 + 10^1021................+1^0]. aaaaaaaaaaaa...1024 times = a [ 1(10^1024-1)/(10-1)] ( Sum of GP) So the 1025 term would be . (2^1024)(10^1024-1)/9 (Ans...)