A party punch recipe calls for one 2-liter bottle of ginger ale, one gallon of fruit juice, and one half gallon of sherbet. Lola's punch bowl isn't large enough, so
she has to cut the recipe down. If she uses only 3/4 gallon of fruit juice, how much of each of the other ingredients will she need?

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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

, and for

the answer is a if my teacher taught me correct

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step-by-step explanation: