Janelle buys 4 cases of water. each case of water contains 12 bottles. janelle drinks 3 bottles of water. veronica writes a numerical expression to represent the situation. her expression (12 - 3) x 4 has a mistake.

answer: i don't understand. what are the options

step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for