Magdalena figueroa's covered medical care bills for a recent illness were $8,440.00. her major medical policy had a coinsurance feature that paid 80% of all covered expenses above a $400 deductible. the amount paid by the major medical policy was what?

, 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

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step-by-step explanation: