Module 1: Geometric series

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Core Mathematics - Find the sum of an increasing geometric sequence

Find the sum of an increasing geometric sequence

Market research for major new retail shop suggests that the number of
"buying" customers per day will triple each day until it peaks after ten
days. On the first day there were only three "buying" customers. How many
customers will "buy" in the shop in the first ten days of trading?

Find the sum to 10 terms of the sequence {3, 9, 27, 81 .........}

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