3. owen’s parents were planning a big birthday party for him. (a) his parents spent $2.49 on each of 6 goodie bags. how much did they spend on goodie bags? show your work. (b) they spent $150 to rent a bounce house for 8 hours. how much is the hourly rate for the rental? show your work. (c) if the parents spent a total of $182.53 on the party, how much more did they spend than what was spent in parts (a) and (b)? show your work.

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step-by-step explanation:

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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

, and for