Question

Find the next three terms of the following arithmetic sequence. -10, -3, 4, 11, (Three missing numbers)

Answer 1

Answer:

You can find the difference of two numbers easier if you take the absolute value of them (which is canseling out the negative or positive of them, and figuring out how far away from 0 they are) |-10| = 10, |-3| = 3, the difference between 10 and 3 is 7. The only problem that arises is now we are dealing with and negative and a positive, for this one you must see that to get from -3 to zero, you need to add 3, and to get from 0 to 4, you need to add 4, if you add 3, and then 4, you get 7

The difference between 10 and 3 is 7

The difference between -3 and 4 is 7

So naturally, the next number will be 4 + 7 = 11

Hope that helped!