I have a word problem with a pattern. I just can't figure it out. - On the first night, Kim's mom gave her a nickel, on the seco
nd, she gave her five nickels, on the third, she gave her fourteen nickels and on the fourth night she gave her thirty nickels. Her mother asked Kim to figure out what she would receive on the tenth night. - I know this must be easy, but I just don't see it.
Explanation: As you make the segments smaller and smaller, the parallelogram becomes more of a rectangle with shorter side equal to the radius of the circle r and longer side πr - half of the circumference of the circle. Hence we get the formula πr2 for the area of a circle of radius r .
