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Question 202307: Please help solve the problem at this url.

http://zamas.us/hexagonalproblem.pdf
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6 for 1 garden
11 for 2 gardens
16 for 3 gardens

You add 5 for each additional garden.

So for the first garden you need 5 + 1
for the second garden you need 5 + 5 + 1
and for the third you need 5 + 5 + 5 + 1

This suggests that if is the number of stones and is the number of gardens, the relationship:



holds.

For 18 gardens, just substitute 18 for and do the arithmetic.



John