Question
Matthew was drawing a pyramid-like structure as shown. It consists of shaded and unshaded squares. The rest of the structure follows the same pattern.
  1. How many shaded squares are there in Row 9?
  2. In which row would there be 33 squares?
  3. Matthew had drawn a total of 81 squares. How many shaded squares were there in the drawing?
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Matthew was drawing a pyramid-like structure as shown. It consists of shaded and unshaded squares. The rest of the structure follows the same pattern.
  1. How many shaded squares are there in Row 9?
  2. In which row would there be 33 squares?
  3. Matthew had drawn a total of 81 squares. How many shaded squares were there in the drawing?