A friend owes $10,000 on his credit card. He plans to stop making charges and pay off the balance. The card has a minimum payment of 5%. He figures correctly that 5% of $10,000 is $500. From that he concludes that he needs to make the 5% minimum payment for only 20 months Is your friend right? If not, explain the error in his reasoning.

yes he is correct

Step-by-step explanation:

10000x0.05=500 so thats correct

he will pay 500 for 20 month= 10,000

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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

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