SOLUTION: Please help me to solve this problem: which term of the number pattern is equal to 52? Given the following linear number pattern 3, 4, 5, 6, ...

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Question 1054180: Please help me to solve this problem:
which term of the number pattern is equal to 52?
Given the following linear number pattern 3, 4, 5, 6, ...
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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52 is the 52nd term of linear pattern 

1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 49, 50, 51, 52, ...

Therefore, if we add 2 to every term,

3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 51, 52, 53, 54, ...

we see that each term comes two terms "earlier" in
that linear pattern.  So 52 comes 50th.

Answer: 50th term

Edwin