Assume the federal government pays new accouuntants without a masters degree an annual salary of 23,500. The starting salary of for new accountants with a masters degree is 35,000. If you spent 21,000 in tuition for graduate school how many months would you work at a new job in the federal government before thw difference in salary pays for your tuition

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Step-by-step explanation:

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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

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

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