Sarah has saved 254 pound coins. She puts the pound coins into bags. There are 20 pound coins in each full bag of coins. Sarah is going to take all her full bags of coins to the bank.
She can only take up to 5 full bags of coins to the bank each day.
Sarah wants to go to the bank on as few days as possible.
On how many days will Sarah need to go to the bank?

Step-by-step explanation:

So for the fewest days it would be 3 days. The reason for that is because she has 254 pound coins. And she can inly take 5 bags to the bank a day, all of those 5 bags have 100 pound coins in them. If she take 2 days and get 200 pound coins to the bank. Then on the third day she would only have to bring three bags. So your answer for the fewest days possible is three days!

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answer:

a(n) - a(n-1) -3

discussion:

this ones a bit interesting. given a(n) = 5 - 3n consider this:

a(n-1) = 5 - 3(n-1)

          = (5 - 3n) + 3             => but a(n) = 5 - 3n, the first term

          = a(n)   + 3                 => subtract 3 from both sides

a(n-1) -3 = a(n)  

or

a(n) - a(n-1) -3

you,

mrb

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