Stock Price After a company reported a decrease in its sales, the price of the company's stock began to drop by $0.25 every day the stock market was open, Monday

through Friday. The company continued to struggle for 6 weeks before reporting that

sales had improved. At that point, the stock price stopped dropping. During that

difficult 6-week period, the company's stock price continued to drop by $0.25 per day

each weekday. What was the change in the price of the company's stock from the

beginning of the 6-week period to the end of it?

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for

3100

step-by-step explanation: