I need help learning how to find the nth term in sequences like 8,6,4,2? i haven’t a clue how to solve things like this and i have a test tomorrow

Answer is in the file below

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Step-by-step explanation:

Its actually simple once you get the basics

Find out the difference between the first two digits given e.g 8,6: the difference is 2 so you check if it's the same difference e.g 6,4: the difference is also 2 so you keep subtracting or adding 2 as the case may be.

-8/2y-8=5/y+4-7y+8/y^2-16

we move all terms to the left:

-8/2y-8-(5/y+4-7y+8/y^2-16)=0

we can not solve this equation