Question: A factory makes custom sports cars at an increasing rate. In the first month only one car is made, in the second month two cars are made, and so on, with n cars made in the nth month.
a) Set up a recurrence relation for the number of cars produced in the first n months by this factory.
b) How many cars are produced in the first year?
c) Find an explicit formula for the number of cars produced in the first n months by this factory.