Up to the table everything is right at the exception of the n value (in the table).
How many dots... figure 10: You found it it's 49 (and not 9)
How many dots... figure 25: You found it it's 109 (and not 24). Expanding it gives : 13+24x4
How many dots... figure 100: You found it it's 409 (and not 99). Expanding it gives : 13+99x4
How many common difference are added to 13 for figure 100. It's easy you also found it, it's 99, the common difference being 4 so it's 99x4
Now let's calculate the number of dots in figure "n" which is:
a(n) = a₁ + (n-1)x4 (4 being the common difference and a₁ = 1st term)
explanation: lookup again at your table and compare the FIG # part with the EXPAND part:
FIG # EXPAND (and notice the figures in the parenthesis) --------- ----------- 1 13 + (0)x4 = 13 (for fig# 1 we have (0) 2 13 + (1)x4 = 17 (for fig# 2 we have (1) 3 13 + (2)x4 = 21 (for fig# 3 we have (2) 4 13 + (3)x4 = 25 (for fig# 4 we have (3) . ........................ . ......................... . ........................ n 13 + (n-1)x4 (for fig# we have (n-1)
As you notice the number in the parenthesis is always = fig # - 1
Hope that you understand this formula of an arithmetic progression with first term a = 13 and 4, the common difference. Note that n is the number of terms
N = ((n-1) + 4) + 4, to my understanding. although your answers seem right written in the columns, but your method of applying numbers to equation seems incorrect in 'expand' column. for example, answer for 3 should be something like this... 3 21 17+4 4 25 21+4 hope it helps.
