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Borders Maths Coursework Here we are look at what happens when you put a (square) border on each side of the original shape. Me starting point will have no borders When I add the borders I put them on each side of the first square and there are 4 borders With the next shape there are now 8 borders. With this shape there are now 12 borders. This shape has 16 borders I can now see a pattern in the number of square, which is that there are 4 more each time. Here is a table to show what I have found. Number of black squares Number of white squares 1 4 5 8 13 12 25 16 41 20 61 24 Using this I can guess what the next number of white squares will be 20. A you can see there are 20 white cubes. This shape has 24 borders Now I will try to find the nth term for the white...

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