What is the area of this figure? 3 ft
6 ft
8 ft
17 ft
14 ft
16 ft

Pls help me its due today and I need a score of 80 and I got a 44 pls help

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Step-by-step explanation:

This might be wrong, But to my calculations it is

, 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