Ratio Test

Practice Questions

GRE Subject Test: Math › Ratio Test

Questions

Assuming that $a_{n}=n^{\alpha}(n+1)$ , $\alpha \ge 2$ . Using the ratio test, what can we say about the series:

$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{a_{n}}$

Consider the following series :

$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}a_{n}$ where $a_{n}$ is given by:

$a_{n}=\frac{n}{n^\alpha +1},\alpha \ge 3$ . Using the ratio test, find the nature of the series.

Which of these series cannot be tested for convergence/divergence properly using the ratio test? (Which of these series fails the ratio test?)

We consider the series : $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{72n+89}$ , use the ratio test to determine the type of convergence of the series.