SOLUTION: A crew of spiders moved into the scary old house and started working at once. They spun 2 webs on the first night, and 7 webs on the second night. On the third night they wove 12 w

Question 59231: A crew of spiders moved into the scary old house and started working at once. They spun 2 webs on the first night, and 7 webs on the second night. On the third night they wove 12 webs. Every night they made 5 more webs than they had made the night before. If the spiders kept spinning in this way, on what night did they spin their 60th web?
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A crew of spiders moved into the scary old house and started working at once. They spun 2 webs on the first night, and 7 webs on the second night. On the third night they wove 12 webs. Every night they made 5 more webs than they had made the night before. If the spiders kept spinning in this way, on what night did they spin their 60th web?
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2+7+12+17+22=60
Spun 60th on night # 5
Cheers,
Stan H.

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