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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the next question when the teacher calls on you while you're asleep and you answer correctly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a sequence of numbers where the next number is a fixed multiple of the previous one.

  1 2 4 8 16 32 … Is a sequence with a ratio of 2.

  96 48 24 12 6 3 … Is the sequence from the question with a ratio of 1/2. You see that elements 2 and 4 (counting from zero) sum to 30 and elements 3 and 5 sum to 15.

  In general, the sequence can be expressed as a_k = c r^k for some starting value c and the ratio r.