Pearson Algebra 1 Common Core, 2015
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Exercise 1 Page 474

Which type of number sequence is characterized by having a common ratio between terms?

Geometric sequence

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A numeric sequence with a starting value a and a common ratio r between consecutive terms has the form shown below.

a, a r, a r^2, a r^3, ... This is the form of a geometric sequence. With this in mind, we can complete the exercise's sentence.

A geometric sequence is a number sequence that has a common ratio between terms.