Algebra and Trigonometry
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ISBN: 9781305719781
Author: James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter PL, Problem 3P
Cutting up a Wire A piece of wire is bent as shown in the figure. You can see that one cut through the wire produces four pieces and two parallel cuts produce seven pieces. How many pieces will be produced by 142 parallel cuts? Write a formula for the number of pieces produced by n parallel cuts.
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