I believe the answer is ‘1’ :)
Just list the factors of 24. Those are the possible numbers of students that can be in each row.
1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24 are the possible row sizes.
7x + 15 = 38
7x = 38 - 15
7x = 23
x = 23/7 (twenty- three sevenths)
Answer: it takes 6 weeks for them to have the same amount of stars (14 and 14)
-(17/30)n^5+(113/12)n^4-(173/3)n^3+ (1915/12) n^2- ( 5813/30)n +85
there fore term number 7 is .... -146/1=-146