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Author: Sullivan

Publisher: PEARSON

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A sequence is defined as a collection of things. Series is defined to sum the things one by one in the sequence. It was invented by German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

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Chapter 12.1, Problem 42AYU

In Problems 37-50, a sequence is defined recursively. Write down the first five terms.

$a_{1} = - 2$ ; $a_{n} = n + 3 a_{n - 1}$

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