In the recursive rule, there's a variable where you plug in the number of times you need the sequence to repeat, but you don't put 1 in that slot because there's another formula/rule you use to find that answer (I can't remember the name of the other rule right now I apologize I hope this makes sense)
You can't use the distributive property on the numbers 48 and 72 because the numbers aren't in an equation.
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