Ms. Bergstedt asked two students to come up with two different sequences. Jay created this sequence: The first term is 4 and eac

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vladimir2022 [97]

3 years ago

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Ms. Bergstedt asked two students to come up with two different sequences. Jay created this sequence: The first term is 4 and eac

h term after the first is 6 more than the preceding term. Joe created this sequence: The first term is 8 and each term after the first term is 5 more than the preceding term.
What is the value of the first term that they have in common?

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Roman55 [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-04T19:06:28+03:00

Roman55 [17]3 years ago

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Well, create an equation.

y=6x+4 and y=5x+8

From there you would go to Desmos.com and find out. The answer is 4,28.
This means it's the fourth term and the number is 28.