The sequence is not geometric because there is no common difference or common ratio between each term. it’s also not an Arithmetic Sequence
The answer for this question is 3(x+4)=1/2x-8
The answer is -20.
The negative part shows the loss and 20 is the amount of money
For 
between 
and 
, we have
is continuous over its domain, so the intermediate value theorem tells us that
is true for 
.
For all , we take into account that is 
-periodic, so the above inequality can be expanded to
where 
is any integer. Equivalently,
To get the corresponding solution set for
simply replace with 
:
Most likely a smaller number
when
;
for
; and
for