Suzy wants to save money so she can buy a new car in five years. If she puts $400 a month into a savings account with a 6% annual interest rate, calculate the total savings she will have saved after the five years. Please show your math. I’ve started you on the right track.

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step-by-step explanation:

step-by-step explanation:

table 3 represents a direct variation function. : )

, 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