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Given a 10 x 10 table, and a 3 steps stair case, I tried to investigate any relation between the two. I started doing this, by positioning the staircase so that the bottom left number would be one  

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AIM: FOR OTHER 3-STEP STAIRS, INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STARE TOTAL AND THE POSITION OF THE STAIR SHAPE ON THE GRID Given a 10 x 10 table, and a 3 steps stair case, I tried to investigate any relation between the two. I started doing this, by positioning the staircase so that the bottom left number would be one and calculating the sum of all the numbers inside it, after this I moved the stair case one step to the right for a few times, and calculated the totals each time I moved it. These are the results: Bottom left number Total sum 1 50 2 56 3 62 4 . . 68 . . So, each time I move by one square on the right the stair case, I noticed that: * All the numbers were even numbers; * Six is added each time to the next number; * The sequence doesn't start with one. So I discovered that a sequence was created. But, to use this sequence I...

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