1. The Jumping Grasshopper
Assume that a grasshopper can jump forever. Every time it jumps, it gets a bit tired, and every jump covers half the distance of its prior jump. If it jumps half a foot on the first jump and then 1/4 of a foot on the next and so on, how many jumps would it take for the grasshopper to cross 1 foot of distance? It looks like a problem involving linear sequence, so you pull out your calculator and your math notebook to solve it. However, the answer is pretty simple; it will never get to the 1-foot mark because due to the nature of the problem, we will need to keep adding smaller and smaller amounts.
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