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1 Exercise 7.3 #2: Author: Eric Emer March 7, 2013

The document contains the solutions to several exercises on convergence tests for series. It summarizes: 1) For a series of terms anbn, if an converges absolutely and bn is bounded, then anbn converges by the comparison test. 2) It evaluates several series using various convergence tests to determine if they converge or diverge. 3) For a series with terms an=1/n^p, it determines that the series converges if p>1 and diverges if p≤1, using the p-series test. 4) It provides a counterexample to disprove a claim made by another theorem about convergence. 5) It proves that if a series is

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1 Exercise 7.3 #2: Author: Eric Emer March 7, 2013

The document contains the solutions to several exercises on convergence tests for series. It summarizes: 1) For a series of terms anbn, if an converges absolutely and bn is bounded, then anbn converges by the comparison test. 2) It evaluates several series using various convergence tests to determine if they converge or diverge. 3) For a series with terms an=1/n^p, it determines that the series converges if p>1 and diverges if p≤1, using the p-series test. 4) It provides a counterexample to disprove a claim made by another theorem about convergence. 5) It proves that if a series is

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18.

100A PS8
Author: Eric Emer March 7, 2013

Collaborators: None.

Exercise 7.3 #2

We are given that bn is bounded. Therefore: |bn | < B, for all n Where B is the upper bound of bn . Thus, it also holds that: |an bn | < |an |B , for all n We notice by the Linearity Theorem that: |an |B = B We are given that |an |

|an | is convergent. Therefore, by Comparison, |an bn | < B |an | = |an bn | converges

Finally, by the Absolute Convergence Theorem: |an bn | converges = an bn converges

2
2.1

Exercise 7.4 #1
a
1

n n2 + 1

2.2

b
1

n2 2n

2.3

c
1

cos n n2

2.4

d
0

(n!)2 (2n)!

2.5

e
(
1

n+1 n ) 2n + 1

2.6

f
2

1 n ln n

2.7

g
sin 1/n
1

2.8

h
1

2n n! nn

2.9

i
(
0

n n2 ) n+2

2.10

j
2

1 n(ln n)p

3
3.1

Problem 7-1
a
n

lim n1p

We see that for p > 1 this series could converge. p > 1, lim n1p = 0 We see that for p < 1, this series does not converge. p < 1, lim n1p = We see that for p = 1, this series does not converge. p = 1, lim n0 = 1 = 0 This theorem tells us which series do not converge, but it does not tell us which do converge.

3.2

Our counterexample: an = We see that: nan =


n

1 n1.5 1 n0.5

1 = 0, so nan 0 n 0 .5 Clearly also, an is decreasing and non-negative. We also know that it is divergent by the p-test. This is a counterexample. lim

3.3

n Given > 0, suppose sn = k=1 ak . We assume that sn converges, and an is non-negative and decreasing. We know that sn is Cauchy because an converges. Because it is Cauchy, there exists some N such that m, n N = |sn sm | < . So, for n N , we have that (n N )an aN +1 + . . . + an = |sn sN | < .

lim(n N )an = 0 lim N an = N lim an = 0 lim(n N )an = lim(n N )an + lim N an = 0 We restructure this as an even-odd problem. for n As above,
n

1, na2n an+1 + . . . + a2n = |s2n sn | <

lim (2n n)an = lim nan = n lim an = 0

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