Frank has recently started to live a healthier lifestyle. He originally weighed 230 1 half pounds. Now he weighs 198 3 over 5 pounds. How many pounds did Frank lose? Simplify (or reduce) your answer, if necessary.

Frank lost 1/4 pounds.

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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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