An architect needs to consider the pitch, or steepness, of a roof in order to ensure precipitation runoff. The graph below shows the vertical height, y, versus the horizontal distance, x, as measured from the roof peak's support beam.
Roof Steepness
y
14
12
10
8
Vertical Height (feet)
4
2
+X
10 12 14
0
2
4
6
8
Horizontal Distance (feet)
Determine the equation that could be used to represent this situation.

The third answer (C).

Step-by-step explanation:

This graph starts at 10. So it needs the +10 at the end.

Also the slope is -1/2 because the graph goes down one, right two. Rise/run.

, 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