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A supermarket display consists of boxes of cereal. The bottom row has 23 boxes. Each row has three fewer boxes than the row below it. The display has six rows.

Write and use a function to determine how many boxes are in the top row. Show your work.

Use the appropriate formula to determine the number of boxes in the entire display. Show your work.

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the answer is 93 boxes total.

First 23
second 20
third 17
fourth 14
fifth 11
sixth 8

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