6 lbs of potatoes cost $72. How many
lbs of potatoes can you get with $516?

42

Step-by-step explanation:

516 divided by 72 = 7.1. You cant use .1 pound . Then you do 6*7 = 42 pounds of potatoes

i think that you should ask google for the answer to that problem because if we don't know it google does

, and

for

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

, and for