Well, you only listed three pieces so far. But I can already see a
pattern emerging from those three.
Of course, the next piece might return to 1-1/2 inches. I mean,
the pattern can't just keep on going and increasing forever or
Cody would eventually wind up with pieces that are a mile long.
It must eventually return to 1-1/2 inches and start over from there.
From the first piece to the second one, and from the second one
to the third one, the increase is 5/16 inch both times. So if the
pattern is more than three pieces long before it starts over from
1-1/2, then the next piece is
(2-1/8 + 5/16) = (2-2/16 + 5/16) = 2-7/16 inches .
The first equation has a solution of X=-5
Area is you multiply 7.9 by 5.9 then divide by two and then the perimeter is you add 7.9+5.9+9.86 I think
1 is 28
2 is 13, 84, 85
Figure both by the Pythagorean Theorem<span />
