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This question has this set of answer choices:
a) when the plane cuts three faces of the cube, separating one corner from the others
b) when the plane passes through a pair of vertices that do not share a common face
c) when the plane is perpendicular to the base and intersects two adjacent vertical faces
d) when the plane makes an acute angle to the base and intersects three vertical faces
e) not enough information to answer the question
The right answer is the first choice: a) when the plane cuts three faces of the cube, separating one corner from the others
You can see a picture of this case in the figure attached: as you can see the cross section (in pink) is a triangle.
a) when the plane cuts three faces of the cube, separating one corner from the others
b) when the plane passes through a pair of vertices that do not share a common face
c) when the plane is perpendicular to the base and intersects two adjacent vertical faces
d) when the plane makes an acute angle to the base and intersects three vertical faces
e) not enough information to answer the question
The right answer is the first choice: a) when the plane cuts three faces of the cube, separating one corner from the others
You can see a picture of this case in the figure attached: as you can see the cross section (in pink) is a triangle.
<h3>Answer:</h3>
<em>Try the answers</em>
You can try the answers to see what works. You can expect all of the choices to match the first two terms, so try some farther down. Let's see if we can get -25 from -7.
a) 3*(-7) -4 = -21 -4 = -25 . . . . this one works
b) -7 -2 = -9 . . . . ≠ -25
c) -3(-7) +2 = 21 +2 = 23 . . . . ≠ -25
d) -2(-7) +1 = 14 +1 = 15 . . . . ≠ -25
The formula that works is the first one.
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<em>Derive it</em>
All these formulas depend on the previous term only, so we can write equations that show the required relationships. Let the unknown coefficients in our recursion formula be p and q, as in ...
Then, to get the second term from the first, we have
... 1·p +q = -1
And to get the third term from the second, we have
... -1·p +q = -7
Subtracting the second equation from the first gives ...
... 2p = 6
... p = 3 . . . . . . . this is sufficient to identify the first answer as correct
We can find q from the first equation.
... q = -1 -p = -1 -3 = -4
So, our recursion relation is ...