0.1^3 or in other words 0.1 to the 3rd power

Find the pattern and use it to list the nth term in the sequence. 6, 12, 20, 30, 42, 56, the nth term of the sequence is

The customer price index(cpi), which measures the cost of a typical package of customer goods, was 208.8 in 2011 and 244.1 in 2016.let x=11 corresponding to the year 2011 an estimate to cpi into 2013 and 2014. assume that the data can be modeled by a straight line and the trend to continue idenfinitely. use data points to find such a line and then estimate the requested quantities

597008.439431 to the nearest thousand