SOLUTION: 1. Model the following sequence of toothpick figures, Dashes and Stars, with toothpicks and:
a.
Step One: Loop and number each figure and Numerically determine the total number
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Step One: Loop and number each figure and Numerically determine the total number
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Question 607508: 1. Model the following sequence of toothpick figures, Dashes and Stars, with toothpicks and:
a.
Step One: Loop and number each figure and Numerically determine the total number of toothpicks in each figure. Mark your number counts on the figures.
Step Two: Convert your looping ideas into Words.
Step Three: Convert your looping and word ideas into Symbols. Simplify your symbolic equations and check them for n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
DASHES AND STARS
The figure is: two dashes then a star, dash, star, dash
1 2 3 (numbers underneath figure)
b. How many toothpicks will there be in the 99th Dashes and Stars figure?
c. How many toothpicks will there be in the 100th Dashes and Stars figure?
d. How many toothpicks will there be in the 101st Dashes and Stars figure?
e. For which Dashes and Stars figure are there 84 toothpicks?
f. For which Dashes and Stars figure are there 97 toothpicks?
g. For which Dashes and Stars figure are there 1011 toothpicks?
Please help me with this... Im so confused :( Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source):
