<TestItem CLASS="ssmc" METHOD="list">
<Stem>
  <Paragraph>
   <Sentence>
    The first four terms of a geometric sequence are given below. 
    Choose the algebraic expression that represents the <italics>n</italics>th term in this sequence.
     </Sentence>
   </Paragraph>

   <Paragraph><Sentence><blockquote>27, 81, 243, 729, <emphasis> . . .</emphasis>
     </blockquote></Sentence></Paragraph>
  </Stem>

<Distractor_list>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence><Inlineimg SRC="images/ExplicitGeometric2bDistA.gif" ALTTEXT="" /></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence><Inlineimg SRC="images/ExplicitGeometric2bDistB.gif" ALTTEXT="" /></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence><Inlineimg SRC="images/ExplicitGeometric2bDistC.gif" ALTTEXT="" /></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence><Inlineimg SRC="images/ExplicitGeometric2bDistD.gif" ALTTEXT="" /></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence><Inlineimg SRC="images/ExplicitGeometric2bDistE.gif" ALTTEXT="" /></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
</Distractor_list>

<Key TYPE="SSMC">
  <response  SCORE="1" EVIDENCEVAL="1">
    <observable>3</observable>
        <feedback TYPE="Student">Right!</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student got this item correct.</feedback>
   </response>
  <response  SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
    <observable ANY="true"/> 
        <feedback TYPE="Student">Sorry, that was incorrect.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student did not get this item right.</feedback>
   </response>
</Key>

<Metadata>
   <AeL ItemNode="tExplicitGeometric2b" Difficulty="2">
	<PMNode LINK="true">ExplicitGeometric</PMNode>
   </AeL>
</Metadata>

</TestItem>
