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If anyone can help me to write recursive and explicit definition for this sequence-example-1
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Explanation:

Each term is 2 more than the previous term, and the first term is 12, so the recursive formula is:


a_(n)=a_(n-1)+2, a_(1)=12

This is an arithmetic sequence, so the explicit formula is:


a_(n)=12+2(n-1)\\a_(n)=10+2n

The next three terms are 20, 22, 24.

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