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a survey of 150 people at a ski resort were to name their favorite hot drink. the results are given in the table. based on this information, if there are 500 people at the ski resort, how many can you predict would name hot chocolate as their favorite hot drink?

a 360
b 48
c 240
d 300

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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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