Question

Help please

What are the first five terms of the sequence represented by the explicit equation g(n) = 34 - 5n ?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Remark

My guess is that what is confusing you is not what you have to do, but why it is disguised as g(n)

What you are doing in effect is setting up a table. You are also not certain where the table starts. And that is a problem. I will start it at zero, but it might be 1.

zero

n = 0

g(0) = 34 - 5*0

g(0) = 34

One

n = 1

g(1) = 34 - 5*1

g(1) = 34 - 5

g(1) = 29

Two

g(2) = 34 - 5*2

g(2) = 34 - 10

g(2) = 24

Three

g(3) = 34 - 5*3

g(3) = 34 - 15

g(3) = 19

Four

g(4) = 34 - 5*4

g(4) = 34 - 20

g(4) = 19

Answer

0 1 2 3 4

34 29 24 19 14