Question 7

Math Analysis HL Paper 2 (May 2025, TZ2)

  1. [Maximum mark: 7]

A geometric sequence has first term 80 and fourth term 0.74088.

(a) Find the second term. [3]

The first two terms of this geometric sequence are also the first term and eleventh term respectively, of an arithmetic sequence.

Let (S_n) denote the sum of the first (n) terms of the arithmetic sequence.

(b) Find the greatest value of (S_n), giving your answer to two decimal places. [4]