After the first raffle drawing, 497 tickets remain. After the second raffle drawing, 494 tickets remain. Assuming that the pattern continues, write an explicit formula for an arithmetic sequence to represent the number of raffle tickets that remain after each drawing. How many tickets remain in the bag after the seventh raffle drawing?

Ascientist places 24 cells in a petri dish. she knows the cells grow at an exponential rate, doubling in number every hour. how long will it take (in hours) for there to be 1100 cells in the dish? time to 1100 cells: 5.51832530 hours how long will it take to reach 110 cells? time to 110 cells : 2.1963972 hours what is the average rate of change in the number of cells between 9 hours and 11 hours? average rate of change: cells per hour what is the instantaneous rate of change after 7 hours? instantaneous rate of change: cells per hour note: you can earn partial credit on this problem.