2. a supermarket display consists of boxes of cereal. the bottom row has 23 boxes. each row has three fewer boxes than the row below it. the display has six rows. (a) write and use a function to determine how many boxes are in the top row. show your work. (b) use the appropriate formula to determine the number of boxes in the entire display. show your work.

A - 8 boxes in the top row

B - 93 boxes in the display

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that,

The number of boxes in the bottom row = 23 and there are total 6 rows in the display.

Now, each row has three fewer boxes than the row below it.

Let the row number be represented by 'n'.

(A) So, the number of boxers in each row are given by

Then, the number of boxes in the 6th row are

(B) The Arithmetic Formula for sequence is   .

Here, n= 6 and

So, Total number of boxes in the display =

y=mx+b is the final answer!   : )