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Marianna [84]
3 years ago
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Constructing a brick staircase: A brick staircase has a total of 30 steps. The bottom step requires 100 bricks. Each successive

step requires two less bricks than the prior step
a) How many bricks are required for the top shelf?
b) How many bricks are required to build the staircase

Sequences, Pre-Calc
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Mathematics
1 answer:
galben [10]3 years ago
7 0
A) The first step needs 100 bricks, the second needs 98, the third needs 96, and so on. Therefore the number of bricks for the nth step is: a_n = a_1 + d(n-1), where a_1 = 100 (the first term), d = -2 (difference).
a_n = 100 - 2(n-1) = 102 - 2n, and for the 30th step, a_30 = 102 - 2*30 = 42. So the top step will need 42 bricks.

b) The total staircase will need: 100 + 98 + 96 + ... +  44 + 42, and there are n = 30 terms. Using the formula for the sum of an arithmetic sequence:
S = (a_1 + a_n)*n/2 = (100 + 42)*30/2 = 2130
Therefore, 2130 bricks are required to build the entire staircase.
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