If you are a lawyer then you passed the bar exam

conditional (original): if you are a lawyer, then you passed the bar exam

converse: if you passed the bar exam, then you are a lawyer

inverse: if you are not a lawyer, then you did not pass the bar exam

contrapositive: if you did not pass the bar exam, then you are not a lawyer

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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