Inspector 47 at the Zap battery plant keeps a record of which AA batteries she finds defective.

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Inspector 47 at the Zap battery plant keeps a record of which AA batteries she finds defective. Although the battery numbers at right do not make an exact sequence, she estimates an arithmetic sequence.
a. Write a recursive formula for an arithmetic sequence that estimates which batteries are defective. Explain your reasoning.
b. Predict the numbers of the next five defective batteries.
c. How many batteries in 100,000 will be defective?
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Discovering Advanced Algebra An Investigative Approach

ISBN: 978-1559539845

1st edition

Authors: Jerald Murdock, Ellen Kamischke, Eric Kamischke

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