Question

Find "k" given the consecutive arithmetic terms:

a. 32, k, 3

Answer 1

@zepdrix heyy you busy rn?

Answer 2

Arithmetic means we're `adding or subtracting` something each time to get to the next term.

Answer 3

To get to k, we have to add some common difference to 32, ya?
Let's call that value d.

Answer 4

So we'll say that our k is equal to 32 plus some unknown number.\[\large\rm k=32+d\]

Answer 5

ok

Answer 6

How do we get to 3?
Well we add d again, right?

Answer 7

yeah, but how do we find out what d is?

Answer 8

So to get from 32 to 3, we add this common difference twice.