The high school students who attend Springfield Women's Academy are eligible to tryout for various teams within the athletic department. Students are 74% likely to tryout for softball; 27% likely to tryout for volleyball; 42% likely to tryout for tennis; and 88% likely to tryout for swimming. Many students choose to tryout for multiple teams. Students have equal probabilities of being freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors. What is the probability of the union of trying out for either volleyball or swimming?

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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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step-by-step explanation:

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