10. APPLICATION Inspector 47 at the Zap battery plant keeps a record of which AA batteries she finds defective.
Although the battery numbers at right do not make an
exact sequence, she thinks they are close to an arithmetic
sequence
a. Write a recursive formula for an arithmetic sequence
that estimates which batteries are defective. Explain
your reasoning
b. Predict the numbers of the next five defective batteries.
c. How many batteries in 100,000 will be defective?
Defective
Batteries
255, 500, 773
998, 1227, 1510,
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