Because I have to change. I have to be a different person than I've been for something on the order of the last two decades. As hard as it is to make incremental changes, I'm a fan of ripping the bandage off quickly. And my Pugs of War is one of the casualties of life. The title has long been superannuated and I have lost the momentum of interesting posting. I look at Joe Sherlock's excellent View Through the Windshield and see how it's done: interesting aggregation with intelligent comments done with regularity.
Compa-Ratio: The ratio of an employee's actual salary (the numerator) to the midpoint of the applicable (the denominator) salary range. To calculate an individual's compa-ratio, divide the actual salary by the midpoint of the assigned salary range. Market Index: An index that is used to calculate an individual or groups market pay by dividing the current pay of an individual by the market pay.
You start with the first term, and multiply it by the common ratio n-1 times! Once you have all this information under your belt, you can use it to solve all sorts of problems. Example One: Find the fifth term of a geometric sequence if the second term is 12 and the third term is 18. Solution: The common ratio is 18/12 or 3/2. Thus the fourth term is 27, and the fifth term must be 81/2. Example Two: Find the second term and the common ratio if the third term is 4 and the fifth term is 16.