What is the common difference of the sequence if the first term of an arithmetic sequence is -3...
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What is the common difference of the sequence if the first term of an arithmetic sequence is {eq}-3 {/eq} and the fifteenth term is {eq}53 {/eq} ?
Arithmetic Sequence:
In mathematics, an arithmetic sequence is a list of numbers, such that the difference between each consecutive number in the list is constant, and this constant difference is called the common difference of the arithmetic sequence. If an arithmetic sequence has a first term of {eq}a_{1} {/eq}, an nth term of {eq}a_{n} {/eq}, and a common difference of d, then we have the formula {eq}a_{n}=a_{1}+(n-1)d {/eq} that we can use to solve for different parts of the sequence.
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View this answerWe are given that our sequence is an arithmetic sequence, the first term of the sequence is -3, and the 15th term of the sequence is 53. Our formula...
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