Given the pattern:
4,15,7,12,10,9,..
Every other term after the first term is increasing by 3. Thus continuing the pattern we shall have:
4, 15, 7, 12, 10, 9, 13, 11,16
thus the missing numbers will be:
13,11,16
Let's solve for y.
<span><span>11−<span><span>12</span>y</span></span>=<span>3+<span>6x
</span></span></span>Step 1: Add -11 to both sides.
<span><span><span><span><span><span>−1/2</span></span>y</span>+11</span>+<span>−11</span></span>=<span><span><span>6x</span>+3</span>+<span>−11
</span></span></span><span><span><span><span>−1</span>2</span>y</span>=<span><span>6x</span>−8
</span></span>Step 2: Divide both sides by (-1)/2.
<span><span><span><span><span>−1/</span>2</span>y</span><span><span>−1/</span>2</span></span>=<span><span><span>6x</span>−8/-1/2
</span></span></span><span>y=<span><span>−<span>12x</span></span>+16</span></span><span>
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Your answer is 35 because you do 35 divided by 50 which equals 0.7 starting from the decimal, move two spaces to the right and you will get 70%