Math 104 - Assignment 7 Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Week 7 Material: Chapter 10 - Series

Textbook reading Seventh Homework Assignment - due at lecture on Tuesday, November 8.
  1. Reading: Sections 10.1 through 10.4
  2. Textbook assignment: (submit nothing) Make certain you can do the following problems from the textbook:
  3. Textbook assignment: Submit answers to Homework Assignment 7 on MyMathLab. If for some reason you are unable to access MyMathLab, the Assignment 7 problems correspond roughly to the following textbook problems, and if you need to, you can turn in solutions to the following textbook problems on paper at lecture on November 8: (This looks like a lot of problems, and it is, but most of them are short, and it's good to get lots of practice with the series concepts!):
  4. Old final exam problems to turn in: Four (sort of) problems on this link -- you should print out the file and show your work for each problem on the page with the problem.

BONUS PROBLEM!!

Bonus problem #7:

Find the sum of the series:

1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/6 + 1/8 + 1/9 + 1/12 + 1/16 + 1/18 ...

where the terms are the reciprocals of the positive integers whose only prime factors are 2s and 3s.

For full credit, you must be as specific as you possibly can! When you have solved it, either write up the solution by hand and give it to me, or else send the solution to

deturck@math.upenn.edu

by electronic mail - extra credit for the first complete solution I receive.