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Given information

Consider the sequence .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

For , .

For ,  

For ,  

Similarly now

For  

For  

For  

Thus from the above variations, the sequence is monotonically decreasing for odd values and it is monotonically increasing for even values.

But for all values of  , the sequence is not monotonic.

 

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