SOLUTION: 1a. Consider the following sequence of figures. Figure 1 contains 5 line segments. Figure 2 contains 9 and figure three contains 13. Given that figure n contains 801 line seg

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Question 1096823: 1a. Consider the following sequence of figures.
Figure 1 contains 5 line segments.
Figure 2 contains 9 and figure three contains 13.
Given that figure n contains 801 line segments, show that n=200.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Figure       segments
  1              5
  2              9
  3             14
  .              .
  .              .
  .              .
  n            801


Arithmetic sequence with first term a1 = 5, 
common difference d = 4, given an = 801,















Edwin
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