easy · GMAT Quantitative Reasoning
In a certain production sequence, the n-th term a_n is defined by a_n = a_n-1 + 2n for all integers n > 1.
If a_1 = 5, what is the value of a_4 - a_2?
- 18
- 8
- 9
- 14
- 23
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