You take a job with a starting salary of $37,000. Your employer offers you an annual raise of $1500 for the next 6 years. Write a rule for your salary in the Nth year. What are your total earnings in 6 years?

How would you go about solving this problem? We're working on summation formulas, arithmetic and geometric sequences, and Sums of those if that helps!

2 answers

x=37000+1500(n-1)
=37000+1500n -1500
x=1500n - 35500

first year: 37000
second year: 38500
third year: 40000
fourth year: 41500
fifth year: 43000
sixth year: 44500

these 6 years numbers are add together and it becomes: $244500
x=1500n-35500
i forgot to add that if you sub in 1-6 year in the n and you will get those answer above