Problem / game
First name
Brian and Frank
School
BISS
Country
Age
14
For the first two patterns (the ones with the side lengths increasing equally) the differences for the nth sequences are:
0, 8, 24, 48... so the pattern is 4(n-1)^2+4(n-1)= 4n^2-4n
For the next two patterns (The crooked one) the differences are:
0, 4, 12, 24... so the pattern is 2(n-1)^2+2(n-1)= 2n^2-2n
From this, we learn that the differences of the first pattern is double the second pattern