Joyce’s teacher asks her to write the sequence formed by the number of red squares in each picture for the first five pictures. What sequence should Joyce write?

Joyce should write

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's analyze the procedure of how the pictures are formed.

Her teacher said the images were created by taking a red square, dividing it into 9 smaller squares, and removing the center square.

For the first two images we can see and count that there is 1 red square in the first picture and 8 red squares in the second picture.

For the third image, there are 8 squares formed by 8 red squares each one.

The number of red squares is 8 x 8 = 64

We can write the sequence as

1 , 8 , 64 ⇒ 1 , 8 ,

For the fourth picture we can do the same reasoning and figure out that there are 8 x 8 x 8 = 512 red squares in the fourth image.

The sequence so far is

1 , 8 , 64 , 512 ⇒ 1 , 8 , ,

We can generalize the sequence and write that the sequence is :

with ∈ IN ⇒ The first five numbers will be

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step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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