I have the following recurrence relation for the coefficients $c_n$ of the power series: $y = \sum^\infty_{n=0}c_nx^n$
$$c_{n+1} = \frac{n+2}{5(n+1)}c_n$$
What is the radius of convergence of the power series?
I can find the radius of convergence by finding a formula for $c_n$ and then find the limit of $|\frac{c_n}{c_{n+1}}|$ as $n$ approaches $\infty$.
Is there a way to determine its radius of convergence without finding the formula first?
You get $$\frac{5^{n+1}}{n+2}c_{n+1}=\frac{5^n}{n+1}c_n=…=c_0$$ so that you can get the explicit form of the power series, and from that read directly off its radius of convergence.
You can of course also directly evaluate the quotient expression $$\frac{c_n}{c_{n+1}}=\frac{5(n+1)}{n+2}.$$