🚧 Setup for 5.7

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**Test Yourself**
1. To use iteration to find an explicit formula for a recursively defined
sequence, start with the _____ and use successive substitution into the _____
to look for a numerical pattern.
2. At every step of the iteration process, it is important to eliminate _____.
3. If a single number, say $a$, is added to itself $k$ times in one of the steps
of the iteration, replace the sum by the expression _____.
4. If a single number, say $a$, is multiplied by itself $k$ times in one of the
steps of the iteration, replace the product by the expression _____.
5. A general arithmetic sequence $a_0, a_1, a_2, \dots$ with initial value $a_0$
and fixed constant summand $d$ satisfies the recurrence relation _____ and
has the explicit formula _____.
6. A general geometric sequence $a_0, a_1, a_2, \dots$ with initial value $a_0$
and fixed constant multiplier $r$ satisfies the recurrence relation _____ and
has the explicit formula _____.
7. When an explicit formula for a recursively defined sequence has been obtained
by iteration, its correctness can be checked by _____.