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How do you find the nth term of a pattern?

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First look for the difference between the terms, for example the sequence:
5, 8, 11, 14... has a difference of 3.

This means the sequence follows the 3 times table - i.e. 3n
Now since we need the first term to be 5 we add 2 to our rule to make it work.

So the nth term of this sequence is 3n + 2.

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