Level 3
Mina uses tiles to create patterns as shown.
  1. Find the number of tiles in pattern 6.
  2. Which pattern has 100 tiles?
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Level 3
Ben is building some patterns using square tiles as shown. How many square tiles does he need to build the 21st pattern?
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Level 3
The following is a sequence of numbers.
  1. Find the 39th number.
  2. Find the 40th number.
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Level 3
Tina used stars and sticks to make the following patterns.
  1. How many stars are there in Pattern 5?
  2. If Tina counted 289 stars, which pattern number had she made?
  3. How many stars are there in Pattern 120?
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Level 3
Consider the pattern.
  1. What is the sum of Row 9?
  2. What is the sum of Row 50?
  3. If the sum is 2702, what is the row number?
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Level 2
The first three figures of a sequence are shown. The table records the number of shaded and unshaded rhombuses in each figure.
  1. Find the number of unshaded rhombuses in Figure 10?
  2. Find the number of shaded rhombuses in Figure 40?
  3. Which figure number has 804 shaded rhombuses?
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Level 3
The patterns show a sequence of shapes. Each shape has a number of small right-angled triangles. A dot is placed at each point where there is a vertex of one or more right-angled triangles. The total number of dots and the number of small right-angled triangles of each figure is shown in a table.
  1. Find the total number of dots required to form Pattern 4.
  2. Find the total number of dots required to form Pattern 20.
  3. Find the number of small right-angled triangles in Pattern 50.
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Level 3
Some patterns of shaded and unshaded small triangles is given. The unshaded triangles are those which have at least one side on the edge of the big triangle. All of the other small triangles are shaded. The table below shows numbers of small triangles.
  1. Find the total number of triangles in Pattern 80.
  2. Find the number of shaded triangles in Pattern 40.
  3. Find the number of unshaded triangles in Pattern 50.
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Level 3
The figure shows a series of steps built using square cubes. The n number of steps is given by x -step.
  1. How many square cubes were used if n is 5?
  2. How many square cubes were used if n is 40?
  3. Find the number of steps if a total of 144 square cubes are used.
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Level 3
The diagram shows a sequence of patterns formed by square tiles. By considering the pattern information in the table, answer the questions.
  1. Find the number of tiles at the bottom layer in the 29th pattern
  2. Find the total number of tiles in Pattern 50.
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Level 3
The diagram shows the pattern for the number of circles.
  1. How many circles will Pattern 4 contain?
  2. How many circles will Pattern 30 contain?
  3. Which pattern contains 421 circles?
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Level 3
Study the table carefully.
  1. How many dots are there in Figure 5?
  2. How many dots are there in Figure 10?
  3. If there are 36 dots, what is the figure number?
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Level 3
Darryl was drawing a pyramid-like structure as shown. It consists of shaded and unshaded rectangles. The rest of the structure follows the same pattern.
  1. How many shaded rectangles are there in Row 9?
  2. In which row would there be 37 rectangles?
  3. Darryl had drawn a total of 144 rectangles. How many shaded rectangles were there in the drawing?
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Level 3
The patterns are made up of identical shaded and identical unshaded squares.

  1. Find the total number of squares in Pattern 4.
  2. Find the number of unshaded squares in Pattern 4.
  3. Which Pattern Number has a total of 100 squares?
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Level 3
Study the pattern. Each figure is made up of identical squares.
  1. What fraction of Figure 1 is shaded? Express your answer in the simplest form.
  2. What is the number of shaded squares in Figure 4?
  3. What is the number of unshaded squares in Figure 8?
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Level 3
Find the sum of all the odd numbers that are less than 40.
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Level 3
The following pattern is made up of shaded and unshaded squares.
  1. Find the values of (i), (ii) and (iii). Give your answers in the following format. (Eg 1, 2, 3)
  2. Find the number of unshaded squares for Figure 30.
  3. Find the number of shaded squares for Figure 30.
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Level 3
The following is made up of identical triangles. Study the pattern carefully.
  1. Complete the table for Figure 4.
  2. A figure number in the pattern has a total of 144 triangles. What is the figure number?
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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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