Hi, I’m really struggling, if anyone knows, please could you help?

a) 26

Step-by-step explanation:

-a would be because as you can see there is a pattern of sticks, so what i did was count up the sticks and i found that there was 6 in the first one. So i counted the second one and it was 10 so i realized that all i had to do was add 4.

and for b i think when it says n it means the nth term which is 4 so i think it means pattern 4 which would be 18 so try that out

hope this helped x

x = ±sqrt(10)

step-by-step explanation:

5 - 2x² = -15

subtract 5 from each side

5-5 - 2x² = -15-5

-2x^2   = -20

divide by -2 on each side

-2x^2   /-2= -20/-2

x^2 =10

take the square root on each side

sqrt(x^2 )=±sqrt(10)

x = ±sqrt(10)

check:

5 - 2x² = -15

+sqrt(10)

5 - 2(sqrt(10))² = -15

5 -2(10) = -15

5 -20 = -15

-15 = -15

-sqrt(10)

5 - 2(-sqrt(10))² = -15

5 -2(10) = -15

5 -20 = -15

-15 = -15