6. Recursively Defined Sequences
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Use a table to organize the terms and find the pattern.
a_1=3, a_n=a_(n-1)+8
The sequence is arithmetic with first term a_1=3 and common difference d=8. To write the recursive rule, we will substitute these values into the general formula for the recursive rule of an arithmetic sequence. la_1=a a_n=a_(n-1)+d ⇒ la_1= 3 a_n=a_(n-1)+ 8