Answer:
x = 12.5 or 12 1/2 (depends if you want decimal or fractions)
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
b. {(2, 1), (3, 1) (4, 3), (5, 3)}
Morse code is essentially the same as binary. That is, there are two "digits", a dot or a dash.
There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. Clearly, we can't just use one dot or dash, since that could only encode 2 letters at the most. We can't use two symbols because that could only encode 4 letters at the most. Similarly, 3 symbols means

letters at most.
We have to select the smallest power of 2 that exceeds or is equal to 26. In this case,

, so we would have to use up to 5 symbols to encode each letter in the alphabet.
Check the forward differences of the sequence.
If
, then let
be the sequence of first-order differences of
. That is, for n ≥ 1,

so that
.
Let
be the sequence of differences of
,

and we see that this is a constant sequence,
. In other words,
is an arithmetic sequence with common difference between terms of 2. That is,

and we can solve for
in terms of
:



and so on down to

We solve for
in the same way.

Then



and so on down to

