Afootball team gains 18 yards in one play and then loses 12 yards in the next. what is the teams total yardage?

i guess it would be 18-12 so it would be 4?

dont trust me im no expert these losers made me fail a test bro this sucks

step-by-step explanation:

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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

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