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Recursive Sequence

9/17/2013

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Daler Gilyazov
9/17/2013 10:20:19 am

at first was a little bit confused about what An-1 meant but third example gave me more understanding of what to do

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Mr. E
9/17/2013 12:27:54 pm

Daler,
Im glad you got more understanding. An-1 simply put, is the previous term.

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Jurgen Bushka
9/17/2013 11:08:15 am

Mr. Estrada I understand the concept and what were doing it, but my only question is why do we substitute the previous term to the equation to find the next term when it says n-1, is n-1 the previous term. And will it say something other then n-1, for example like n-3 or n-10.

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Mr. E
9/17/2013 12:27:10 pm

Jurgen,
Those are great questions!
First you asked:
"my only question is why do we substitute the previous term to the equation to find the next term when it says n-1, is n-1 the previous term[?]"
Correct n-1 is the previous term.

Then you asked:
"will it say something other then n-1, for example like n-3 or n-10.[?]"
I would suppose that it can say something like n-3, in that case they would have to give you 3 terms to begin
eg:
a1= 3
a2= 5
a3= 6
an= an-1 + an-3

In the example above a4= 6 +3, which is 9 a5= 9 +5, which is 14. and so on to get the rest

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Sarafina
9/18/2013 11:34:24 am

I think the arithmetic and the geometric formula are kinda similar to the recursive formula.

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olufemi
9/19/2013 12:14:12 pm

this very easy

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Markenzie Jean
9/30/2013 01:47:56 pm

Got it Mr.Estrada, thanks

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Robin Cepeda
10/2/2013 11:00:46 pm

oo i see now

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Kaseem Johnson
10/8/2013 06:50:59 am

Easy Topic

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donte
10/9/2013 04:21:49 pm

It was confusing 2 me but then I thought about yhe examples and then it started to sink in

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Francisco
10/13/2013 06:54:27 am

I got it estrada .

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James
10/13/2013 11:25:05 am

watched

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