A golf championship has a maximum of 132 players. The tee-off times begin at 8:00 and are 8 mins apart.
a) Write the first 4 terms of the arithmetic sequence, if the first tee-off time of 8:00 is considered to be at time 0.
b) Following this schedule, how many players will be on the course after 1h, if the tee-off times are for groups of 4?

Can someone help? I know the answers are 32 and 8n-8 respectively, but I can't reach them. Thank you!

Question

A golf championship has a maximum of 132 players. The tee-off times begin at 8:00 and are 8 mins apart. 
a) Write the first 4 terms of the arithmetic sequence, if the first tee-off time of 8:00 is considered to be at time 0. 
b) Following this schedule, how many players will be on the course after 1h, if the tee-off times are for groups of 4? 

Can someone help?  I know the answers are 32 and 8n-8 respectively, but I can't reach them. Thank you!

anonymous · Answer

First we have to write the first four terms of the arithmetic sequence beginning at t=0.  This is just asking you to list the first five starting times for the golfers.

anonymous · Answer

Okay, so I've done that: 0, 8,16,24
How would I find out how many golfers in 1 h?

anonymous · Answer

The 8n-8 is the expression for the arithmetic sequence and doesn't seem to apply to the 2nd part. 
To find out how many golfers will be teed-off in an hour we simply have to count how many will have teed-off before the tee-off time reaches greater than 60 min.