Slim Johnson was usually the best free-throw shooter on his basketball team. Early in the season, however, he had made only 9 of 20 shots. By the end of the season, he had made all
the additional shots he had taken, thereby ending with a season record of 3:4. How many
additional shots had he taken?

24

Step-by-step explanation:

(9 + x)/(20 + x) = 0.75

Solve that for x, the number of additional free throws taken.

9 + x = 15 + 0.75 x

0.25 x = 6

x=24

, 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