bill ate 1 jelly bean on sunday, 2 jelly beans on monday and 3 jelly beans on tuesday. if this continues for the rest of the week, how many jelly beans will bill have eaten in all by the end of saturday?
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = ?
To find out how many jelly beans Bill will have eaten by the end of Saturday, we need to calculate the total number of jelly beans he eats each day and then sum them up.
Bill ate:
- 1 jelly bean on Sunday
- 2 jelly beans on Monday
- 3 jelly beans on Tuesday
From Wednesday to Saturday, he will continue eating the same number of jelly beans as he did on Tuesday (3 jelly beans).
So the number of jelly beans he eats per day for 4 days (Wednesday to Saturday) is 3 jelly beans.
Now let's calculate the total number of jelly beans:
1 (Sunday) + 2 (Monday) + 3 (Tuesday) + 3 (Wednesday) + 3 (Thursday) + 3 (Friday) + 3 (Saturday)
Adding all these values together, we get:
1 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 18
Therefore, by the end of Saturday, Bill will have eaten a total of 18 jelly beans.
To find out how many jelly beans Bill will have eaten by the end of Saturday, we can follow a simple pattern. Let's analyze the pattern for the first three days:
Sunday: 1 jelly bean
Monday: 2 jelly beans
Tuesday: 3 jelly beans
We notice that Bill is eating one more jelly bean each day. So, we can extend the pattern for the rest of the week as follows:
Wednesday: 4 jelly beans
Thursday: 5 jelly beans
Friday: 6 jelly beans
Saturday: 7 jelly beans
To find the total number of jelly beans that Bill will have eaten by the end of Saturday, we can sum up the jelly beans for each day from Sunday to Saturday:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28
Therefore, Bill will have eaten 28 jelly beans by the end of Saturday.