Adass has 28 students.
16. extend your thinking a class has 28
each student brought 10 aluminum ca
school to recycle. the class divided the cans
evenly into 4 boxes. how many grams of
aluminum did they put in each box?

70

Step-by-step explanation:

28 times 10 equals 280 divide that by 4 is 70

, and

for

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

a

step-by-step explanation: