SOLUTION: i need to find the nth term of a pattern with consecutive even numbers, ive tried many solutions but neither see to be working. please help.

Question 554879: i need to find the nth term of a pattern with consecutive even numbers, ive tried many solutions but neither see to be working. please help.
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you have consecutive even numbers, each one is equal to the previous one plus 2.
That could be written as or .
If your first term is , the second would be .
The third one would be
The fourth one would be
The fifth one would be , and so on.
Each time you calculate the next term, you are adding 2.
When you get to the nth term, you have added n-1 times the number 2, so

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