William W. answered 09/09/20
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The recursive equation always has two parts. 1) where you start. So, in this case that is the first term is 2 or a1 = 2. The second part tells you what to do to get to the next term. In this case you add 2 to get to the next term so that would be written as an+1 = an + 2