on monday Sheldon brewed 1 bottle of tonic, on tuesday he brewed 4 bottles, wednesday he brewed 9 and thursday 16. How many bottles did he brew on friday? Is it 30??
I'm 10 years old
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This looks like the sequence of squares,
1 squared
2 squared
3 squared
4 squared
and next.....
I don't understand your answer?
squaring something is multiplying it by itself. For instance, 3 squared is 3 x 3 or 9.
Thank you very much. Sorry
Good job on trying to solve the problem! Let's go through the steps to find the answer.
We are given that on Monday, Sheldon brewed 1 bottle of tonic. On Tuesday, he brewed 4 bottles. On Wednesday, he brewed 9 bottles. And on Thursday, he brewed 16 bottles.
To find out how many bottles Sheldon brewed on Friday, we need to look for a pattern in the number of bottles he brewed each day.
If we observe closely, we can see that the number of bottles Sheldon brewed each day is increasing by 3 each time. For example, we add 3 to the previous number each day to get the next number.
Starting with 1 bottle on Monday, if we add 3 to it, we get 4 bottles on Tuesday. Again, if we add 3 to 4, we get 7 bottles on Wednesday. Similarly, adding 3 to 7 gives us 10 bottles on Thursday.
So, if we continue the pattern, adding 3 to 10 would give us 13 bottles on Friday, not 30.
Therefore, Sheldon brewed 13 bottles on Friday, according to the pattern.
Keep practicing and solving more such problems! Let me know if you have any other questions.