SOLUTION: periodical cicadas are insects that emerge as adults the same year. one species that appears every 17 years emerge in large numbers in 1995 in parts of Eastern North America. writ

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Question 1201455: periodical cicadas are insects that emerge as adults the same year. one species that appears every 17 years emerge in large numbers in 1995 in parts of Eastern North America. write a sequence to represent the next 5 years the cicadas are expected to appear. create a rule to determine the nth term of your sequence. determine and explain the meaning of t20
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periodical cicadas are insects that emerge as adults the same year. one species that appears every 17 years
emerge in large numbers in 1995 in parts of Eastern North America. write a sequence to represent
the next 5 years the cicadas are expected to appear. create a rule to determine the nth term of your sequence.
determine and explain the meaning of t20
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Add 17 to the year of the previous appearance to get the year of the next appearance.

Do it as many times as you need or as you want.

Regarding t20, it makes no sense in context of the given problem.