Geometric Sequence Formula

Learn how to work with geometric sequences in this free math video tutorial by Mario's Math Tutoring. We discuss how to find a missing term using the explicit formula and the recursive formula.

0:14 What is a Sequence
0:18 What is a Geometric Sequence
0:28 Geometric Sequence Explicit Formula for finding any term
0:46 Example Finding the 10th term in a Geometric Sequence
2:09 How to write the geometric sequence recursively
3:01 Plotting the points to illustrate that geometric sequences are exponential functions
3:44 Example 2 looks at how to find a term in a geometric sequence when given 2 non consecutive terms
4:25 How to solve the system of equations by dividing.

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