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<Stem>
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   <Sentence>
    What is the ninth term of a geometric sequence if the third 
    term is 36 and the fourth term is 72?
     </Sentence>
   </Paragraph>
     </Stem>

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  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence>  144 </Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence>  108 </Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence>  4608   </Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence>  2304  </Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
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<key TYPE="SSMC">
    <response  SCORE="1" EVIDENCEVAL="1">
        <observable>4</observable>
        <feedback TYPE="Student">Correct, good job!</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student correctly determined the 9th term of a geometric sequence.</feedback>
    </response>
    <response  SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
        <observable>1</observable>
        <feedback TYPE="Student">Sorry, that's not right.  The question is asking for the 9th term, not the 5th term.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student gave the next term in a geometric sequence, instead of the 9th term.</feedback>
    </response>
    <response  SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
        <observable>2</observable>
        <feedback TYPE="Student">Sorry, that's not right. Perhaps you added the third and fourth terms, but this is not the correct rule to generate successive terms in the sequence. This is a geometric sequence, which means there is a common ratio between terms. For example, the sequence 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,... has a common ratio of two. To generate the next term in this sequence, you multiply the current term by two.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student added two terms of the sequence together.</feedback>
    </response>
    <response  SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
        <observable>3</observable>
        <feedback TYPE="Student">That's incorrect, but you are close! It looks like you found the 10th term, instead of the 9th term.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">Student gave the 10th term.</feedback>
    </response>
      </key>	
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