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The pattern below changes by adding two tiles for each new figure. Use Figure 5 to answer the following questions.
tile | tile | tile | tile | tile | tile | tile | |||||
tile | tile | tile | tile | tile | tile | tile |
Figure 5
How many tiles should be in Figure 7? How do you know?
How many tiles are in figure 5? If you add two tiles for Figure 6 and two more for Figure 7, how many tiles should be in Figure 7?
What could Figure 3 look like? Sketch one possibility.
If there are
tiles in Figure 5, and you take away two for Figure 4 and two more for Figure 3, how many tiles should be in Figure 3? Could there be a Figure 0? If so, how many tiles would it have?
Yes! If you have
tiles and take two away five times, how many tiles should Figure 0 have? If the pattern continues, will there be a figure with exactly
tiles? Explain your answer with a sentence or a drawing. If Figure 0 has
tiles, how many times do you need to add two tiles to get to tiles?