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this has an attached to it. Maybe that will help

[b]1. I was given times for the sunrise in new york for one year. The question was that I needed to find a function that would best represent the data. The first column is the week number and the second is the time in hours and min. 1 7.2 2 7.2 3 7.18 4 7.14 5 7.09 6 7.02 7 6.54 8...

ok well i turned in the paper today hopefully it is right. the general form i came up with was like a scalar or 2^(n-1) (k^n+1 k^n-1) (k^n-1 k^n+1)

hey i couldn't find any patterns that way. did you find anything?

ok thank you, i'll try that today I'm pretty sure i'll be able to work it out now. That helped alot.

ok i did that but I'm still not getting how to work that with my original problem

yes she has taught us that but i don't know what that has to do with it?

yes i do

no I'm not sorry I'm trying to learn this. its an assignment my teacher gave us and told us to run with. i saw one pattern but i don't really know how to explain it. i noticed that the first term in each matrix differed from the second term by 2^n. that's all i got by looking at it

S^2= (20 16 20 16 S^3= (112 104 112 104) S^4= (656 640 640 656) S^5= (3904 3872 3872 3904)

P^3= (36 28 28 36) P^4= (136 120 120 136) P^5= (528 496 469 528)

i'll see what i can do about the examples

i calculated it out for 1,2,3,4,and 5 its really hard to post on my computer. do you have any ideas for finding a general form? because that is the basis of the problem

K guys here's the problem P= (3 1 1 3) S=(4 2 2 4) Calculate P^n and S^n for other values of n and describe any patterns you see. I tried this one for about an hour and got a little bit. I just want to see what you can get out of it. Maybe I missed something...