Question
Michael 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 31 squares?
  3. Michael had drawn a total of 49 squares. How many shaded squares were there in the drawing?
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Michael 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 31 squares?
  3. Michael had drawn a total of 49 squares. How many shaded squares were there in the drawing?