Unit
Sequences and Series
MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
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MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
Many jobs have regular salary increases. That means you get hired at an initial yearly amount, and then it increases steadily some fixed amount each year. (If it increases a fixed percent each year, you would use a geometric sequence.) Here, we use a starting salary and known fixed raise to find how much a chef would make after a certain number of years, and how long it would take him/her to earn a given amount. If you wanted the sum of his/her earnings over time, you'd use an arithmetic series formula.
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