Question

Help with algerba! greatly appreciated

Answer 1

@Eyad Could you possibly help me? I would so appreciate it.

Answer 2

the sequence of dots is

1, 4, 9, 16

does this sequence look familiar?

Answer 3

I'm not sure what the pattern is?

Answer 4

do those numbers look familiar at all?

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

how so

Answer 7

They're adding on each time? I'm sorry I really don't know

Answer 8

don't worry about the pattern

Answer 9

well I mean the rule for the pattern

Answer 10

notice square 1 has 1 dot

if a square has a side length of 1, then the area is 1*1 = 1 square unit

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square 2 has 4 dots

if a square has a side length of 2, then the area is 2*2 = 4 square units

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square 3 has 9 dots

if a square has a side length of 3, then the area is 3*3 = 9 square units

Answer 11

see what's going on?

Answer 12

Yes that makes sense

Answer 13

ok so how many dots does square 5 have?

Answer 14

16

Answer 15

that's square 4, try again

Answer 16

25?

Answer 17

better

Answer 18

you got that by doing what

Answer 19

5x5

Answer 20

good

Answer 21

so in general, for square n, it has ____ dots