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If You're Good At Maths... I have a sequence problem

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Well, for GCSE, our teacher gave us this sequence and told us to find the nth term. Well, unsurprisingly, he did not tell us how to do it. Thats just what he's like.So, I decided to post here for help, because we have some intellectual people here =]So, the sequence is-->11, 44, 110, 220, 3851st difference --> 33, 66, 110, 1652nd difference --> 33, 44, 553rd difference --> 10, 10

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Hello, the ninth term is 1815.the full sequence it:11,44,110,220,385,616,924,1320,18151st difference --> 33,66,110,165,231,308,396,4952nd difference --> 33,44,55,66,77,88,993rd difference --> 10,10,10,10,10,10

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ZOMG! I cant read that ... you must be like geniuses .. LOLOL

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Lol, well I still had to learn how to find the nth term of a cubic sequence, so there wasn't much point in copying anyway.Me and my friend discussed it over break-time, and we figured it out. It took about 4 A4 sized papers though lol =](even though the above equation was correct, google searches are usually junk)

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Then again, if you divide all the terms by 11, you get something from Pascal's Triangle:11, 44, 110, 220, 385, ...becomes1, 4, 10, 20, 35, ...which would break down into the first, second, and third differences as demonlord described, only divided by 11.Only, isn't the third difference 11 instead of 10?

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