Jim’s family is choosing whether to go to a restaurant for lunch or for dinner. The cost of a salad is $7 at lunch and $9 at dinner. The cost of a steak is $10 at lunch and $12 at dinner. Each person will choose either a salad or a steak regardless of the mealtime. Jim calculates the food bill to be $41 if they go during lunch and $51 if they go during dinner. How many people will choose a salad?

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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

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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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