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April borrows $60 from her grandmother to

buy basketball shoes. At the end of the first
week, April pays back $5. At the end of each
of the following weeks, she pays back $3
more than she did the previous week.
The arithmetic sequence 5, 8, 11, 14, ... can be
used to represent this situation. In this sequence n
represents what?

User Statikuz
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Answer:

n represents the number of weeks

Explanation:

User Shekhar Joshi
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Answer:

Explanation:

n represents the position of the term in a sequence. Take the sequence 5, 8, 11, 14 for instance, if n = 3, that means the n refers to the third term which is 11

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