SOLUTION: find the first 5 terms of each sequence. show work please. 1). a1=1 , an=(a n-1)^2+1 . 2). a n=n^2-2n Here is a screenshot of the problems because I don't know how to wri

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Question 1022414: find the first 5 terms of each sequence. show work please.
1). a1=1 , an=(a n-1)^2+1 .
2). a n=n^2-2n
Here is a screenshot of the problems because I don't know how to write the little numbers on here ,
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Answer by richard1234(7193) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can use a_{n} to represent , a_{n-1} to represent .

For the first one, what it is saying is that (the nth term of the sequence) is the square of the previous term , plus 1:






The second one says that is equal to the quantity , for all integers .