Level 3
The numbers are written in five columns to make a pattern.
  1. Find A in terms of k.
  2. Find B in terms of k.
  3. Find C in terms of k.
  4. Express k in terms of n.
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Level 3 PSLE
Zane uses toothpicks to form figures that follow a pattern. The first four figures are shown.
  1. The table shows the number of toothpicks used for each figure. Complete the table for Figure 5 and Figure 6. Give your answers in numbers. (Eg 1, 2)
  2. What is the difference in the number of toothpicks Zane would use for Figure 11 and Figure 13?
  3. How many toothpicks would he use for Figure 50?
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Level 3
Study the number pattern carefully.
  1. What is the missing number in the 5th pattern?
  2. What is the missing number in the 32th pattern?
  3. If this number pattern goes on, which pattern number will give you 445?
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Level 3
May added a certain number of white squares round a grey square and then a certain number of grey squares round the white squares and she continued adding more grey and white squares round the diagram in each pattern as shown.
  1. How many grey squares did she need if the most outer layer had 11 squares on each side?
  2. How many squares are there in the Figure 11?
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Level 3
A pattern is made by putting shaded squares of unit length around a white square of similar unit length. He then continues to make patterns as shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3.
  1. Which figure uses 100 white squares?
  2. Find the number of shaded squares in Figure 30.
  3. Find the total number of squares in Figure 60.
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Level 3
At Richard's soap factory, a special soap bar 'Johnny's Bricks' is made by daily adding 1 cm3 soap bars around the previous day's region of soap bars.
  1. Find the number of 1-cm3 soap bars added on Day 5.
  2. Find the total number of soap bars on Day 9.
  3. Find the total number of soap bars on Day 30.
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Level 3
The diagram shows the first four of a sequence of figures.
Figure 1 is made up of just 1 square.
Figure 2 is made up of one 2 x 2 and four 1 x 1 squares, so it has a total of 1 + 4 = 5 squares.
Figure 3 contains one 3 x 3 and some 2 x 2 squares and nine 1 x 1 squares.
The sequence continues as shown in Figure 4 and so on.
  1. How many squares are there in Figure 7?
  2. How many total number of squares will be there in sequence 7?
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Level 3
Consider the following sequence:
  1. Find the sum of 2 + 6 + 10 + 14 + ... + 30.
  2. A given line of the sequence is as follows: 2 + 6 + 10 + 14 + ... + a = 648 = 2 x b2. Find the value of b.
  3. Calculate the sum of Line 40 if the pattern for the sum of the lines is as follows:- Line 1: 8 Line 2: 8 + 10 Line 3: 8 + 10 + 12
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Level 3 PSLE
Study the pattern.
  1. Find the total number of white and grey triangles in Figure 100.
  2. Find the percentage of grey triangles in Figure 100. (Give the answer in decimals.)
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Level 3
Look at the pattern.
  1. Find the total number of squares in Pattern 4.
  2. How many shaded squares will there be in Pattern number 15?
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