QUESTION: Rachelle is offered a new job with Big Time Book Sellers. Her starting wage is $10.00
per hour, and she will receive a $0.50 raise after the first year. For each year that she
stays with the company after that, her raise will be $0.50 more than it was the year
before. How much will Rachelle make per hour in her 7th year working at Big Time
Book Sellers?
A) How would you solve this problem? Explain the steps you would take. What is
your answer?
B) What is one important detail from this problem that you think people might
commonly miss?

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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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answer: list the statements and i will follow up!

step-by-step explanation: