Question

• Write a program to print the sum of the first n terms of the following series
1/2 - 1/4 + 16 -1/8 +...
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Answer 1

Answer:

void sum (int terms)

{

float sum = 0.0, j = 1.0;

int count;

for(count = 1; count <= terms; count++)

{

sum = sum + (1/j);

if(count%2 == 0)

j = j * (-2);

else

j = j * 2;

}

printf("\nSum of Series:\t %f", sum);

printf("\n");

return 0;

}

int main () {

int numberOfTerms = 5;

sum(numberOfTerms);

return 0;

}

Explanation:

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