Question

Gabriel makes gift baskets for birthday parties. She has 15 baskets left over from last year, and she plans to make 10 more each day. If there are 12 days until the day she begins to sell the baskets, which one of the following would best model this sequence to predict the number of baskets she will make?

Explicit arithmetic function
Recursive arithmetic process
Explicit geometric function
Recursive geometric process

Answer 1

She will be making 10 baskets each day, and she has only 12, so you multiply 12 x 10 which gives you 120, and she has 15 from last year, then you add 120 + 15 which gives you 135 baskets.

Answer 2

D is the correct answer