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Example Question #4 : How To Find The Next Term In An Arithmetic Sequence
An arithmetic sequence begins as follows:
Give the sixth term of the sequence in decimal form.
The common difference of an arithmetic sequence can be found by subtracting the first term from the second:
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The th term of an arithmetic sequence can be derived using the formula
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The decimal equivalent of this can be found by dividing 13 by 15 as follows:
The correct choice is .
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Next Term In An Arithmetic Sequence
An arithmetic sequence begins as follows:
Give the sixth term of the sequence.
The common difference of an arithmetic sequence can be found by subtracting the first term from the second:
Setting :
The th term of an arithmetic sequence can be derived using the formula
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Example Question #811 : Arithmetic
Complete the sequence:
The pattern of this sequence is where represents the place of each number in the order of the sequence.
Here are our givens:
, our first term.
, our second term.
, our third term.
This means that our fourth term will be:
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