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What is the recursive formula for this arithmetic sequence?
-7,-1,5, 11, ...

What is the recursive formula for this arithmetic sequence? -7,-1,5, 11, ...-example-1

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Answer:

D

Explanation:

The recursive formula allows us to find any term in a sequence by adding the common difference d to the previous term.

Here d = - 1 - (- 7) = - 1 + 7 = 6 , then


a_(n) =
a_(n-1) + 6 ; a₁ = - 7