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Find the eighth term of the sequence whose πth term is given by π sub π equals six over three π minus two, where π is in the set of positive integers.
The πth term or the general term here will allow us to find the value of any term in the sequence. The value of π represents the index of the term in the sequence. We are given the information that π is in the set of positive integers. So that means that the first term in the sequence will have an index of one. If we did want to find the first three terms in the sequence, for example, we would substitute in the values of π equals one, two, and three in turn into the πth term.
But here, weβre just asked for one specific term, the eighth term. And so we must substitute the value of π equals eight into the πth term. This gives us π sub eight, the eighth term, is equal to six over three times eight minus two. Simplifying, we have six over 24 minus two. And of course, six over 24 simplifies to one-quarter. In order to evaluate one-quarter minus two, we need to convert two into a fraction over four. And so we have one-quarter subtract eight-quarters.
And so we can give the answer that the eighth term of the sequence with πth term π sub π equals six over three π minus two is negative seven over four.