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Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3

The first three diagrams in a sequence are shown above.

Diagram 1 shows an equilateral triangle with sides of length 1 unit.
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In Diagram 2, there are 4 triangles with sides of length 2 unit.
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In Diagram 3, there are 16 triangles with sides of length 4 unit.

(a) Complete this table for Diagrams 4, 5, 6 and n.

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4 Diagram 5 Diagram 6 Diagram n

1 1
Length of side 1 2 4

Length of side
20 2–1 2–2
as a power of 2
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(b) (i) Complete this table for the number of the smallest triangles in Diagrams 4, 5 and 6.

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4 Diagram 5 Diagram 6

Number of smallest
1 4 16
triangles
Number of smallest
20 22 24
triangles as a power of 2
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(ii) Find the number of the smallest triangles in Diagram n, giving your answer as a power of 2.

Answer(b)(ii) ................................................ [1]

(c) Calculate the number of the smallest triangles in the diagram where the smallest triangles have sides of
1
length 128 unit.

Answer(c) ................................................ [2]

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Examiner's
Use

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4

The first four Diagrams in a sequence are shown above.

Each Diagram is made from dots and one centimetre lines.
The area of each small square is 1 cm2.

(a) Complete the table for Diagrams 5 and 6.

Diagram 1 2 3 4 5 6

Area (cm2) 2 6 12 20

Number of dots 6 12 20 30

Number of one centimetre lines 7 17 31 49

[4]

(b) The area of Diagram n is n(n + 1) cm2.

(i) Find the area of Diagram 50.

Answer(b)(i) cm2 [1]

(ii) Which Diagram has an area of 930 cm2?

Answer(b)(ii) [1]

(c) Find, in terms of n, the number of dots in Diagram n.

Answer(c) [1]

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(d) The number of one centimetre lines in Diagram n is 2n 2 + pn + 1 . For
Examiner's
Use
(i) Show that p = 4.

Answer(d)(i)

[2]

(ii) Find the number of one centimetre lines in Diagram 10.

Answer(d)(ii) [1]

(iii) Which Diagram has 337 one centimetre lines?

Answer(d)(iii) [3]

(e) For each Diagram, the number of squares of area 1 cm2 is A, the number of dots is D and the
number of one centimetre lines is L.

Find a connection between A, D and L that is true for each Diagram.

Answer(e) [1]

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3 The first three diagrams in a sequence are shown below.
The diagrams are made by drawing lines of length 1 cm.

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3

(a) The areas of each of the first three diagrams are shown in this table.

Diagram 1 2 3
Area (cm2) 1 4 9

(i) Find the area of Diagram 4.

Answer(a)(i) ......................................... cm2 [1]

(ii) Find, in terms of n, the area of Diagram n.

Answer(a)(ii) ......................................... cm2 [1]

(b) The numbers of 1 cm lines needed to draw each of the first three diagrams are shown in this table.

Diagram 1 2 3
Number of 1 cm lines 4 13 26

(i) Find the number of 1 cm lines needed to draw Diagram 4.

Answer(b)(i) ................................................ [1]

(ii) In which diagram are 118 lines of length 1 cm needed?

Answer(b)(ii) ................................................ [1]

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 (c) The total number of 1 cm lines needed to draw both Diagram 1 and Diagram 2 is 17.
The total number of 1 cm lines needed to draw all of the first n diagrams is
2
3
n3 + an2 + bn.

Find the value of a and the value of b.

Show all your working.

Answer(c) a = ................................................

b = ................................................ [6]
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Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4

The first four diagrams in a sequence are shown above.

The diagrams are drawn using white squares and grey squares .

(a) Complete the columns in the table for Diagram 4 and Diagram n.

Diagram 1 2 3 4 n

Number of white squares 12 20 28

Number of grey squares 0 1 4

Total number of squares 12 21 32 (n + 1)(n + 5)

[6]

(b) Work out the number of the diagram which has a total of 480 squares.

Answer(b) ................................................ [2]

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 (c) The total number of squares in the first n diagrams is
1
3 n3 + pn2 + qn.

(i) Use n = 1 in this expression to show that p + q = 11 32 .

Answer(c)(i)

[1]

(ii) Use n = 2 in the expression to show that 4p + 2q = 30 13 .

Answer(c)(ii)

[2]

(iii) Find the values of p and q.

Answer(c)(iii) p = ................................................

q = ................................................ [3]
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