Sally is making square patterns with her square tiles using the pattern shown. She has black and white tiles. Find the size of her new square,

- (i)
if she has just added 65 tiles to a pattern,
Answer .
- (ii)
if she has just added tiles to a pattern. (express your answer in terms of k)
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3(i)
1. Relate the number of tiles added to the odd-number sequence.
The tiles added are
This is an arithmetic sequence with first term and common difference .
Let be the th term of this sequence:
2. Find the resulting square size.
Adding tiles changes Pattern 1 to Pattern 2, adding tiles changes Pattern 2 to Pattern 3, and so on.
So the nd addition gives Pattern .
Hence the new square is
3(ii)
1. Form an equation connecting the number of tiles added to the size of the new square.
For a new square of size , the number of tiles just added is
Given that she has just added tiles,
2. Solve for the new square size in terms of $k$.
Hence the size of the new square is
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