A bakery is selling cupcakes. There are 4 boxes of cupcakes with pink icing and 5 boxes of cupcakes with green icing Each box of cupcakes with pink icing has 8 cupcakes. Each box of cupcakes with green icing has 6 cupcakes What is the total number of cupcakes in all the boxes? can someone help me please

62 cupcakes in total

Step-by-step explanation: 4x8=32 5x6=30  32+30=62

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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

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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

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