Owen has $170 in his savings account. Each month he withdraws $4.25 to pay for his club dues. Explain how you can write an expression that can be used to calculate the amount he has left in his savings account after m months, and use the expression to calculate the amount he has left in his account after 9 months.

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step-by-step explanation:

the ratio of balloons to tables is 5: 2 and the constant variation is 5.

the equation is y=5x

, 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

1.3 million hoops i believe