SOLUTION: What is the 100-th term in the following pattern? 0, 3, 8, 15, 24, 35, 48, 63, . . .

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Question 550144: What is the 100-th term in the following pattern?
0, 3, 8, 15, 24, 35, 48, 63, . . .
Answer by unlockmath(1688) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
With these patterns we need to play around with different ways that would work. This particular one works as:
n(n+2)
Now start with zero and plug it in and work up the numbers and we'll get the pattern.
Plug 100 in for n and we get:
10,200
Make sense?
RJ
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