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Question 1087034: Can someone other than Alan answer this question please since Alan has taken this question 3x and has not answered the question. Thank you
Kurt's dog eats 3 scoops of dog food each day. If you write down the total number of scoops of food the dog has consumed over time, what kind of sequence will you have?

Arithmetic geometric both neither
which one is correct

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Answer by ikleyn(52835) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let me help to you both.

The sequence is 


    day   eat per day      cumulative sum (same as TOTAL)

     1        3                        3
     2        3                        6
     3        3                        9
     4        3                       12

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 


The TOTAL is the Arithmetic progression with the first term a%5B1%5D = 3  and  the common difference  d = 3.

Solved.


On arithmetic progression see the introductory lessons
    - Arithmetic progressions
    - The proofs of the formulas for arithmetic progressions
    - Problems on arithmetic progressions
    - Word problems on arithmetic progressions


Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Arithmetic progressions".