Formula For A Recursive Arithmetic Sequence

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So I have learned to program using recursion, but I have not learned how to actually do this in math. If I have the sequence {4,8,12}, and the question asks for a recursive formula to solve for an+1, would it be as simple as: an+1 = an + 4 ? This seems correct to me, but it also seems too simple.