Question

Gary rents three DVDs each week at Fantastik Flicks. Write an algebraic expression for Wn, the total number of points earned in the nth week

Answer 1

For the nth week, the total points earned in the DVD rentals is $p_n + 2$

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DVD rentals:         1    2    3    

Total DVD points:  3   5    7    

The number of points earned is a function of number of DVD rentals.

For the first DVD, the number of points earned;

$n_1 = p_1 + c\\\\where;\\c \ is \ the \ constant \ point \ earned$

3 = 1 + c

3- 1 = c

2 = c

For nth week the total point earned is given as;

$n_t_h = p_n + c\\\\n_t_h = p_n + 2$

Thus, for the nth week, the total points earned in the DVD rentals is $p_n + 2$

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Answer 2

Here we have a problem with arithmetic sequences.

After a small online search, I've found that:

Fantastik Flicks gives: 3 points for the first rental, 5 points for the second rental, 7 points for the third rental

And so on.

We will find that the total of points in the n-th week is given by:

Wₙ = 15 + (n - 1)*18

Looking at the number of points given for each rental, we can see that we have an arithmetic sequence with an increase of 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15,...

We want to find the total of points earned in each week. For example, for the first week the total of points is: W₁ = (3 + 5 + 7) = 15

For the second week, the total of points is: W₂ = (9 + 11 + 13) = 33

For the third week, the total number of points is: W₃ = (15 + 17 + 19)  = 51

Now let's see if Wₙ also is arithmetic. To see this, we need to look at the difference between consecutive elements of Wₙ.

W₂ - W₁ = 33 - 15 = 18

W₃ - W₂ = 51 - 33 = 18

So in both cases we got the same difference, this makes a lot of sense, taking in account that we construct the Wₙ with an arithmetic sequence, so is logical that the sequence {Wₙ} is also arithmetical.

Now that we know this, we can see that in the n-th week, the total of points will be: Wₙ = W₁ + (n - 1)*18Wₙ = 15 + (n - 1)*18

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