Sara’s Pizza recorded weekly sales for regular cheese pizza from the past four weeks. Week 1: 417 pizzas sold
Week 2: 399 pizzas sold
Week 3 : 405 pizzas sold
Week 4: 410 pizzas sold

Estimate how much tomato sauce and cheese they should purchase for next week. Explain how you made your estimate and why it is reasonable.

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but, when they're all changed to a decimal they would equal to 0.6.

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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

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