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. Al's Omelets Al's House of Eggs N'at makes omelets. Al begins each day with 150 eggs to make his famous Bestern Western Omelets. After making 1 omelet, he has 144 eggs left. After making 2 omelets, he has 138 eggs left. After making 3 omelets, he has 132 eggs left.Question: Think about the number of eggs al has left after making each omelette. Describe the pattern

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At the beggin there are 150 eggs, after making 1 omeltet, there are 144 eggs, after the second omelet, there are 138 eggs, etc.

By the given statement you can notice that each omelet demands 6 eggs. Then, after making each omeltet Al has 6 eggs lower. This can wrtten numerically as follow:

150, 144, 138, 132, 126, 120,...

That is equivalent to:

150-6, 150-6-6, 150-6-6-6, 150-6-6-6-6, 126-6-6-6-6-6, ... , 150 - 6n

where n is the nth omelet made by counting from the begining of the day.

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