Question

The Cerca Middle School Student Committee is sponsoring a Math Fair for parents and students. Mr. Tilton's homeroom class is designing some of the questions for the students.

Nina created this pattern using trapezoid tiles.

How many unit trapezoids will be in pattern 16?

Answer 1

Answer: 256 trapezoids

Explanation:

The amount of trapezoids is that pattern # squared. For example pattern #3 is 9 trapezoids. Therefore pattern #16 would have 256 trapezoids because 16^2=256.