Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2009/ia/paper-1/9f/a/solution

Put , so . The printed summand is . If , its absolute value is at most , and the two geometric series converge. Thus there is absolute convergence.
For the series becomes , a divergent multiple of the harmonic series. For it becomes
The first series converges by the alternating series test, while the second diverges to , so their partial sums tend to . In particular, alternation of some terms does not imply convergence here. The complete classification is
There are no conditionally convergent cases.

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