MATH101 April 2013
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[hide]Question 12 (c)
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Full-Solution Problems. In questions 4–12, justify your answers and show all your work. If
a box is provided, write your final answer there. Unless otherwise indicated, simplification of numerical answers is required in these questions.
Determine, with explanation, whether converges or diverges.
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Make sure you understand the problem fully: What is the question asking you to do? Are there specific conditions or constraints that you should take note of? How will you know if your answer is correct from your work only? Can you rephrase the question in your own words in a way that makes sense to you?
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If you are stuck, check the hints below. Read the first one and consider it for a while. Does it give you a new idea on how to approach the problem? If so, try it! If after a while you are still stuck, go for the next hint.
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[show]Hint 1
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By part (b), we cannot use integral test. It's clear geometric series, ratio test, and alternating series test do not apply. What's left?
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[show]Hint 2
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Try either limit comparison test, or the direct comparison test.
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[show]Solution 2
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We can prove this using the comparison test, in the same way as part (a), with replacing and sums instead of integrals.
Notice that for large , the summands behaves like , so this will be our goal. First, since , we have

Now, for , we have

To prove this, notice if , then

where in the second line we added to both sides, and in the third line we divided by .
Now, since

diverges by p-series, we have that diverges by the comparison test.
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