Homework Help: MATH

Posted by Paul on Monday, August 13, 2007 at 6:26pm.

I'm having trouble with this problem:

Guess a simple formula for the sequence that begins:
-1, 1/2, -1/3, 1/4, -1/5

term(n) = (-1)^n x 1/n will do it

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