Question

This is a homework for MATLAB. Please answer using MATLAB functions and parameters. The answers are to be submitted as a .m script. Don't just list final answers.

Problem 2: Perform the following exercises to find the sum of the first sixty terms of the following series: 1/2 − 2/4 + 3/8 − 4/16 + 5/32 + ...

a) Create a row vector p2a to store the numerators of each term in the series.

b) Create a row vector p2b to store the denominators of each term in the series.

c) Create a row vector p2c to store the signs of each term in the series, e.g. 1 for positive and -1 for negative.

d) Use function sum with the vectors in parts (a-c) to obtain the sum of the series. Put the answer in p2d

Answer 1

matlab code

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p2a=1:60;
p2b=2.^(1:60);
p2c=(-1).^(0:59);

p2d=sum((p2a.*p2c)./p2b)

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Output