A recurrence Relations problem that I found in a manga

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So this question is from the manga series, “Assassination Classroom”. The Japanese Roughly above given on the cyborg translates to: “Find the general solution for a[n] as defined in following recurrence-relation sequence.”

The recurrence relation sequence in this scan looks something is shown at the bottom of that cyborg

Here’s a drawing of mine trying to depict said recurrence relation clearly.

I’m not sure if something like that would count as a recurrence relation or if the vertical “=“ signs are actually quotations (“ “)

Anyway, a character “solves” the question and has written the solution (or at least, a trick) on a grenade.: a[n+1]/3[n+1] and a[n]/3[n]

So, can somebody help me interpret what the recurrence relation in the question is and what the steps are to finding the solution?

Thank you.

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Sometimes japanese is written vertically top to bottom, right to left. So the recurrence in the manga is $$ \begin{align} a_{1} &= 5, \\ a_{n+1} &= 2a_{n} + 3. \end{align} $$ I don't see any relation between the symbols on the grenade and the solution the recurrence.

This can be solved by subtituting $a_{n}-2a_{n-1}$ into $3,$ which yields $$ a_{n+1} = 3a_n - 2a_{n-1}. $$ This is a homogeneous linear recurrence, here is one way to solve it. The final solution of this recurrence is $$ a_{n} = 2^{n+2}-3. $$