Customer Money Spent (in dollars) 1 $13 2 $46 3 $13 4 $87 5 $10 6 $5 7 $8 8 $16 9 $33 10 $57 A clothing store owner tracks the amount of money the last 10 customers spend in her store. The owner concludes that the typical amount spent by any customer is $28.80. The owner's conclusion A) is valid. The last 10 customers only bought sale items. B) is correct. This is the average amount spent by any customer. C) is invalid. This is not a good representation of all customers. Eliminate D) is unfair. The last ten people in the store may have been tired.

D

Step-by-step explanation:

is unfair. The last ten people in the store may have been tire

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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