<TestItem CLASS="ssmc" METHOD="list">
<Stem>
<Paragraph>
<Sentence>Which of the following is not a geometric sequence?</Sentence>
</Paragraph>	
</Stem>
<Distractor_list>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence> 2, 8, 32, 128, <emphasis>...</emphasis></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence>10, 13, 16, 19, <emphasis>...</emphasis></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence>5, 10, 20, 40, <emphasis>...</emphasis></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
  <Distractor><Paragraph><Sentence> 3, 6, 12, 24, <emphasis>...</emphasis></Sentence></Paragraph></Distractor>
</Distractor_list>

<Key TYPE="SSMC" >
<response SCORE="1" EVIDENCEVAL="1">
<observable>2</observable>
	<feedback TYPE="Student">That's correct! You have selected the sequence that is not geometric.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">From among a set of options, the student correctly identified which sequence was not geometric.</feedback>
</response>

<response SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
<observable>1</observable>
	<feedback TYPE="Student">Sorry, that's incorrect. The sequence 2, 8, 32, 128, <emphasis>...</emphasis> is geometric. Each term is equal to the previous term times four, so this is a geometric sequence with a common ratio of 4.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student was not able to identify a non-geometric sequence from among a set of options.</feedback>
</response>

<response SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
<observable>3</observable>
	<feedback TYPE="Student">Sorry, that's incorrect. The sequence 5, 10, 20, 40, <emphasis>...</emphasis> is geometric. Each term is equal to the previous term times two, so this is a geometric sequence with a common ratio of 2.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student was not able to identify a non-geometric sequence from among a set of options.</feedback>
</response>

<response SCORE="0" EVIDENCEVAL="0">
<observable>4</observable>
	<feedback TYPE="Student">Sorry, that's incorrect. The sequence 3, 6, 12, 24, <emphasis>...</emphasis> is geometric. Each term is equal to the previous term times two, so this is a geometric sequence with a common ratio of 2.</feedback>
        <feedback TYPE="Teacher">The student was not able to identify a non-geometric sequence from among a set of options.</feedback>
</response>
</Key>
<Metadata>
<AeL ItemNode="tSolveGeometricProblems1b" Difficulty="1">
	<PMNode LINK="true">solveGeometricProblems</PMNode>
</AeL>
</Metadata>
</TestItem>