The dosage of cough medicine for a child 4 to 6 is 1/2 every 4 hours. If a child receives 5 doses of medication over 2 day, how many teaspoons has the child receives

2 1/2 teaspoons

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There is some unnecessary information in the problem, first, it should be removed.

"The dosage of cough medicine for a child 4 to 6..."

"2 days"

Listing the age and days don't matter here, it's the rest of the problem that matters!

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"1/2(a teaspoon) every 4 hours,"  This is one dose. Multiply 1/2 by five to see how many teaspoons are consumed.

1/2 x 5 = 2 1/2 (teaspoons)

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Good luck! :)

~pinetree

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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

1 the 1st term, 3 the 2nd term, 6 the 3rd term,etc.

note the following:

from the 1st term (1) to the 2nd term (3), we go up by 2,from the 2nd term (3) to the 3rd term (6), we go up by 3from the 3rd term (6) to the 4th term (10), we go up by 4, andfrom the 4th term (10) to the 5th term (15), we go up by 5.

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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