3.) Alize has come up with another fund raiser. She and Ms. Rivera are selling Easter Baskets. The small ones cost $5.00 and the big ones cost
$10.00. They have a total of 45 baskets. They want to make a total of $300.
Use substitution to find how many of each basket they want to sell. SHOW
ALL WORK

answer: ask

step-by-step explanation:

, 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