Use a calculator to find the mean of the data. {217, 253, 214, 247, 217, 253, 232, 246, 223, 227, 229, 247, 206, 241, 239, 223, 222, 216, 252, 209, 236, 256}

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Used Python function to get all the numbers and add them, then I divided it by 22, which is the number of numbers in the array.

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for

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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

about 168 miles

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