Question

-7, -3, 1, 5 what is the explicit formula

Answer 1

Answer:

f(x)=4x-11

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a linear sequence, so we have to find our common difference, or slope, by finding the difference between any term and its previous term. We should do this a couple of times to make sure it's consistent. In this case, our slope is 4 and our first term is -7. We can do our equation in slope intercept (y=mx+b) form. However, to do this, we have to find the '0'th' term, or the term where x=0, a.k.a. the y-intercept. Our 1st term where x-1 is -7, and since our common difference is 4, we subtract 4 from negative 7 to get a y-intercept of -11. Our equation is now y=4x-11. To make this an explicit formula, we convert into f(x) form to get a formula of f(x)=4x-11.