Examining whether $\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty\frac{(-1)^{n+1}}{5n+1}$ is convergent, absolute convergent or divergent

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To show, that the series is convergent we show at first, that $\color{red}{\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \left(\dfrac{1}{5n+1}\right)}=0$.

$\color{red}{\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \left(\dfrac{1}{\underbrace{5n+1}_{1/\infty}}\right)=\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \left(\dfrac{1}{n}\right)}=0 \implies a_n>0$

Leibniz criterion $\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty (-1)^{n+1}\cdot \underbrace{\dfrac{1}{5n+1}}_{a_n}$

We still need to show, that $a_n$ is monotonic decreasing: \begin{align} a_{n}&\ge a_{n+1}\\ \color{red}{\frac1{5n+1}}&\color{red}{\ge\frac1{5n+6}\iff 5n+6\ge5n+1\iff 6\ge 1\;\checkmark} \end{align} $\implies$ monotonic decreasing. $\implies$ The series is convergent.

To prove, that the series is absolute convergent, we show that $\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \left|\dfrac{(-1)^{n+1}}{5n+1}\right|$ is converging.

\begin{align} \sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \left|\dfrac{(-1)^{n+1}}{5n+1}\right|&=\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \dfrac{\mid (-1)^{n+1}\mid }{\mid 5n+1\mid}\\ &=\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{5n+1}\\ &\ge\color{red}{\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{5n+5}}\\ &=\color{red}{\frac15\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n+1}}\\ &=\color{red}{\frac15\sum \limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n}}\\ &\implies \text{harmonic series} \implies divergent \end{align}

$\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \dfrac{(-1)^{n+1}}{5n+1}$ is convergent but not absolute convergent. $_\blacksquare$

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You first part is fine for the second that step is wrong

$$\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{5n+1} \color{red}{=\sum \limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{5n}}$$

we can simply refer directly to limit comparison test with $\sum \frac 1n$ and conclude for divergence indeed

$$\frac{\frac{1}{5n+1}}{\frac1n}=\frac{n}{5n+1}\to \frac15$$

or as an alternative

$$\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{5n+1}\ge \sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{5n+5}=\frac15\sum \limits_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n+1}=\frac15\sum \limits_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n}$$