Tom started with total 72 chocolate wafers.
<u><em>Explanation</em></u>
The number of chocolate wafers taken by 8 members of the baseball team are in the sequence :
The above sequence is <u>arithmetic sequence</u> with first term(a₁)= 1 and common difference (d) = 2
<u>Formula for Sum</u> of first terms in arithmetic sequence is....
So, the Sum of 8 terms in that sequence....
That means, the total number of chocolate wafers taken by the baseball team members is 64. Tom ate 5 and then gave his brother 3 chocolate wafers at first.
So, the total number of chocolate wafers at starting