A stack of boxes has 17 rows. The bottom row has 41 boxes, and the top row has 9 boxes. Assuming that the sequence of numbers that gives the number of boxes in succeeding rows is arithmetic, how many boxes does the stack contain?\The stack contains boxes.
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The bottom row has "Doxes" and the top row has "Do*es". This means that the top row has a missing letter, which could be any vowel (A, E, I, O, U). Show more…
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