Answer:
15) a) 8
b) y + 2
c) y - 1
16) True
17) 2n - 1, where n is an integer
18) a) 3p + 4q
b) 500 - 3p - 4q
Let's say the tv was 100$ . Reduced by 20% means the tv is now 100 - 20 = 80% of the original price.
0.8(100) = 80$
Reduced again; by 10% means that it is now 100-10 = 90% of the 80$
0.9(80) = 72$
sale price ÷ original price
72$ / 100$ = 0.72 which is 72% of the original price. Which is a mark down of:
100 - 72 = 28%
The new price is 28% lower than the original price.
Area divided by length= width
x^3+12x^2+47x+60 ÷ x+5=w
A plausible guess might be that the sequence is formed by a degree-4* polynomial,
From the given known values of the sequence, we have
Solving the system yields coefficients
so that the n-th term in the sequence might be
Then the next few terms in the sequence could very well be
It would be much easier to confirm this had the given sequence provided just one more term...
* Why degree-4? This rests on the assumption that the higher-order forward differences of 
eventually form a constant sequence. But we only have enough information to find one term in the sequence of 4th-order differences. Denote the k-th-order forward differences of by 
. Then
• 1st-order differences:
• 2nd-order differences:
• 3rd-order differences:
• 4th-order differences:
From here I made the assumption that 
is the constant sequence {15, 15, 15, …}. This implies 
forms an arithmetic/linear sequence, which implies 
forms a quadratic sequence, and so on up forming a quartic sequence. Then we can use the method of undetermined coefficients to find it.
