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
The graph shows 3 figures formed by shaded and white triangles.
  1. Complete the column for Figure 5. Give your answers for (i) and (ii) in numbers. (Eg 1, 2)
  2. What is the total number of triangles in Figure 16?
  3. How many shaded triangles are there in Figure 40?
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Level 3
Observe the following figures.
  1. Find the number of small triangles in Figure 4.
  2. Find the number of small triangles in Figure 50.
  3. Find the number of sticks in Figure 100.
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Level 3
Study the pattern carefully.
  1. How many shaded squares are there in Pattern 4?
  2. How many squares are there altogether in Pattern 7?
  3. In which pattern will you find 37 shaded squares?
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Level 3
The diagram shows a sequence of patterns formed by identical triangles. Find the values of (i), (ii) and (ii). Give your answers in the following format. (Eg 1, 2, 3)
  1. A figure in the pattern has a total of 169 triangles. What is the Figure Number?
  2. Another figure has 50 more shaded triangles than unshaded triangles. What is the total number of triangles in this figure?
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Level 3 PSLE
Yasmin uses stars and circles to form figures that follow a pattern as shown.
  1. The table shows the number of stars and circles for the first four figures. Complete the table for Figure 5. List the answers in the following order using commas. (Eg i, ii, iii)
  2. A figure in the pattern has a total of 121 stars and circles. What is the figure number?
  3. Another figure in the pattern has 50 more stars than circles. What is the total number of stars and circles in the figure?
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Level 3
A series of patterns of shaded and unshaded small triangles is shown.
  1. Which pattern has 141 shaded triangles?
  2. Find the number of unshaded triangles in Pattern 40.
  3. Find the total number of triangles in Pattern 90.
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Level 3
Some patterns of shaded and unshaded small squares is shown. The unshaded squares are those which lie on the diagonals of the figure. By considering the number patterns,
  1. find the total number of squares in Figure 30,
  2. find the total number of shaded squares in Figure 50.
  3. what will be the figure number that will have 49 squares?
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Level 3
The diagram shows 3 squares, the length of which are 1 cm, 2 cm and 3 cm respectively. Each square is made up of small squares which has a length of 1 cm and alternate squares are coloured grey and white.
  1. How many small grey squares are needed to create a square of side 11 cm?
  2. Find the length of the side of a square if 196 small grey and white squares are used to create it.
  3. Find the number of small white squares when a square of side 18 cm is created?
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Level 3
1-cm square tiles and triangular tiles were used to make some figures. The area of each triangular tile was half that of a square tile. The first four figures are shown.
  1. Find the area of Figure 5.
  2. How many squares were used to make a figure with an area of 180.5 cm2?
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Level 3
The three diagrams show the highest number of intersections obtained from 2, 3 and 4 lines respectively.
  1. What is the highest number of segments for 10 straight lines?
  2. What is the maximum number of intersections obtained from 30 straight lines?
  3. What is the maximum number of regions obtained by using 40 straight lines?
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Level 3
The following figures are made of ovals.
  1. How many ovals will there be in Figure 6?
  2. How many ovals will there be in Figure 88?
  3. Which figure will have 5305 ovals?
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