It helps to imagine the variable a sort of as a unit. Like with 5 minus 12 lemons, it has no bearings on the addition/subtraction here.
Factor out a and subtract.
Factor out a and subtract.
Sophia is 8 years older than Lila. Twenty years ago Sophia was three times as old as Lila. How old is each now?
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The sum of the first four terms of the sequence is 22.
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The formula of sum of linear sequence is
The sum of the first ten terms of a linear sequence is 145
⇒
⇒ 145 = 5 (2a+9d)
⇒
⇒ 29 = 2a + 9d ------- (1)
The sum of the next ten term is 445, so the sum of first twenty terms is
⇒ 145 + 445
⇒
⇒ 590 = 10 (2a + 19d)
⇒
⇒ 59 = 2a + 19d -------- (2)
Now subtract (2) from (1),
⇒ 30 = 10d
⇒ d =
⇒ d = 3
Substitute d in (1), we get
⇒ 29 = 2a + 9(3)
⇒ 29 = 2a + 27
⇒ 29 - 27 = 2a
⇒ 2 = 2a
⇒ a =
⇒ a = 1
Thus, sum of first four terms is
⇒
⇒
⇒ S₄ = 2(2+9)
⇒ S₄ = 2(11)
⇒ S₄ = 22.
Hence we can conclude that the sum of the first four terms of the sequence is 22.
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