Karyn wanted to cut three lengths of wood from a 10 foot long board. The length of threepieces she wanted to cut were feet, feet, and feet. How much of the 10 footboard would be left over?

Step-by-step explanation:

Note; given question is incomplete

Size of pieces =

Given:

Size of wood = 10 ft

Find:

How much wood remain

Computation:

Wood remain =

, 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

x-3y=4

step-by-step e