Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The common difference (d) can be found using the first and 4th terms:
a1 = 3
a4 = a1 +d(4 -1)
-9 = 3 +3d . . . . . simplify
-3 = 1 + d . . . . . . divide by 3
-4 = d . . . . . . . . . subtract 1
Then ...
x = a1 + d = 3 -4 = -1
y = x + d = -1 -4 = -5
The values of x and y are -1 and -5, respectively.
We are given the following inequality:

If we replace b = 2, we get:

Now we solve for "a" first by subtracting 8 on both sides:

Now we divide both sides by 6

Simplifying:

Therefore, for b = 2, the possible values of "a" are those that are greater than 1/3
Let's start from what we know.

Note that:

(sign of last term will be + when n is even and - when n is odd).
Sum is finite so we can split it into two sums, first

with only positive trems (squares of even numbers) and second

with negative (squares of odd numbers). So:

And now the proof.
1) n is even.
In this case, both

and

have

terms. For example if n=8 then:

Generally, there will be:

Now, calculate our sum:



So in this case we prove, that:

2) n is odd.
Here,

has more terms than

. For example if n=7 then:

So there is

terms in

,

terms in

and:

Now, we can calculate our sum:




We consider all possible n so we prove that:
Your slope of this graph is: 4/3x
Step-by-step explanation:
For every 3 squares across, the line goea down 1 square.
Hence the slope is -1/3.