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Math Analysis HL Paper 2 (May 2025, TZ2)

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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 SnS_n denote the sum of the first nn terms of the arithmetic sequence.

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