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What's the Common Difference?
What is the common difference?
Summary
- The difference between two numbers is the result you get after subtracting those two numbers
- 2, 4, 6, 8 is an arithmetic sequence
- To find the common difference for the sequence '2, 4, 6, 8, ...' we'll have to find the difference between each pair of numbers
- Add 2 to each number to get the next number in the sequence
- Since we add 2 each time, 2 is the common difference!

Notes
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- The difference between two numbers is the result you get after subtracting those two numbers
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- The difference between two numbers is the result you get after subtracting those two numbers
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- You can do this by subtracting a term from the term that comes after it
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- If it is not the same every time, you don't have an arithmetic sequence
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- Even numbers are numbers that are divisible by 2
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- We can do this by just subtracting each number from the number that comes after it
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- So we would subtract 4-2
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- So we would subtract 6-4
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- So we would subtract 8-6
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- 2+2=4
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- 4+2=6
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- 6+2=8
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