Section 4

The number of people texted in each 5 minute period forms a geometric sequence. TIME 8:00 8:05 8:10 8:15 8:20 8:25 8:30 People Contacted 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 The TOTAL number of people that know the rumor now at each time is a SUM of the terms of the geometric sequence. Definition 1 ................
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