Consider this sequence:
72, 72. 25, 72. 5, 72. 75, 73
a. Use your calculator to evaluate each term in the sequence. If answers are not exact, approximate to four decimal places.
b. Find the differences between the consecutive terms of the sequence. What do these differences tell you?
c. Find the ratios of the consecutive terms in 8a. What do these values tell you?
d. What observation can you make about these decimal powers?