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,

  1. (i)

    if she has just added 65 tiles to a pattern,

    Answer .

  2. (ii)

    if she has just added 4k+34k + 3 tiles to a pattern. (express your answer in terms of k)

    Answer

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Worked solution

3(i)

1. Relate the number of tiles added to the odd-number sequence.

The tiles added are
3,5,7,…3,5,7,\ldots
This is an arithmetic sequence with first term 33 and common difference 22.

Let 6565 be the nnth term of this sequence:
3+2(n−1)=653+2(n-1)=65

2. Find the resulting square size.

3+2(n−1)=653+2(n-1)=65
2(n−1)=622(n-1)=62
n=32n=32

Adding 33 tiles changes Pattern 1 to Pattern 2, adding 55 tiles changes Pattern 2 to Pattern 3, and so on.

So the 3232nd addition gives Pattern 3333.

Hence the new square is
33×33.33 \times 33.

Answer

33×3333 \times 33

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 n×nn\times n, the number of tiles just added is
2n−1.2n-1.
Given that she has just added 4k+34k+3 tiles,
2n−1=4k+3.2n-1=4k+3.

2. Solve for the new square size in terms of $k$.

2n−1=4k+32n-1=4k+3
2n=4k+42n=4k+4
n=2k+2n=2k+2
Hence the size of the new square is
(2k+2)×(2k+2).(2k+2)\times(2k+2).

Answer

(2k+2)×(2k+2)(2k+2) \times (2k+2)

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