SOLUTION: can someone explain to me the meaning n+1 or n-1 in Inductive reasoning?

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Question 320550: can someone explain to me the meaning n+1 or n-1 in Inductive reasoning?
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is the next term after the -th term. And is the term immediately preceeding the -th term. So if you happened to be talking about the 7th term, then then next term would be 7 plus 1 or the 8th term, and the one before that would be 7 minus 1 or the 6th term.

John


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