document.write( "Question 1141724: A quadratic pattern has a second term equal to 1,A third term equal to -6 and a fifth term equal to -4
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document.write( "An alternate method is to find the general term by substituting in \r\n" );
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document.write( "     an²+bn+c = the nth term\r\n" );
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document.write( "and solving for a,b,c.\r\n" );
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