Mr. Jacobs is going to make a histogram of the test scores from the last math test he gave. He plans to first organize the data into a stem-and-leaf plot and then make the histogram from the stem-and-leaf plot. The test scores are listed below. 79, 82, 65, 61, 94, 97, 84, 77, 89, 91, 90, 83, 99, 71, 68, 77, 87, 85

Which of the following expressions could be used to find how many students scored less than a 90 on the test?

, and

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