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Find a G.P. for which sum of the first two terms is –4 and the fifth term is 4 times the third term.

Consider

   

to be the initial term and r to be the normal proportion of the G.P.

Given,

   

Then, at that point, from the inquiry we have

Also,

   

Utilizing the worth of r in (1), we have

In this way, the necessary G.P is