What is the 3rd term of the linear sequence below? 22 18, 14, 10, 6
1 answer:
Answer:
As we can see, what we are doing is substracting 4 from one term to the next:
22 - 4 = 18
18 - 4 = 14
14 - 4 = 10
10 - 4 = 6
Knowing this and that we start on 22, we can say that for n term we have:
So, if we're searching the thirs term, we replace n by 3 (we can also see it in the question):
=
So the third term is 14.
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SOH-CAH-TOA
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SOH-CAH-TOA
Sine (x) = Opposite/Hypotenuse
Cosine (x) = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
Tangent (x) = Opposite/Adjacent
*hypotenuse is always the largest side, and the one opposite the 90° angle in right triangles
therefore we'll use SOH, because the opposite of x (O) and the hypotenuse (H) are given:
Sine (x) = Opposite/Hypotenuse
Sine (x) = 32/58 = 16/29 = 0.552
Sine (x) = 0.552
now we use something called arc-sine, or
it's basically a fancy function of most advanced calculators, so we'll plug it in as:
x = 33.49° --> answer B) is correct