The arch of a doorway is in the shape of a parabola. The bottom of the arch is 4 feet above the floor, and the top of the arch is 8 feet above the floor. The doorway is 4 feet wide. How would that look on a graph??

by definition, an arc subtended by a central angle of some given measure has the same measure. so .

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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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