Answer:
the answer to 1 is 24.5
Step-by-step explanation:
i believe
After a 25% discount...means that u paid 75%
so 75% of the original cost is 18.50...
0.75x = 18.50.....with x being the original cost
x = 18.50 / 0.75
x = 24.666 rounds to 24.67 <==
The number of cups will be equal to 496.
<h3>What is arithmatic progression?</h3>
The sequence in which every next number is the addition of the constant quantity in the series is termed as the arithmatic progression
Here we have the data:-
The bottom row has 61 cups
If there are 16 total rows
The number of the cups will be calculated as:-

Here a1 is first term 1
an is last term 2
n is the total number of the rows
By putting the values in the question we will get:-

Hence the number of cups will be equal to 496.
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