Example 2

The amount of a loan from a bank decreases annually by 20%. It can be defined recursively by , with . Find the first five terms of the sequence (loan totals for the first 5 years), write an explicit formula to represent the sequence, and find the eighth term (the amount of the loan after 8 years).
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