EXERCISE

POLYA’S STRATEGY.
A. Apply Polya’s Strategy to solve the following problems.
1. Twenty-four points are placed around a circle. A line segment is drawn between each pair of points. How
many line segments are drawn?

2. There are 364 first-grade students in Park Elementary School. If there are 26 more girls than boys, how
many girls are there?

PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES.

B. Solve each of the following problems.
3. How many squares are in the following figure?

4. In a basketball league consisting of 12 teams, each team plays each of the other teams exactly twice.
How many league games will be played?

INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING.

C. Use inductive reasoning to predict the next number in each list.
5. 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, _____
6. 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, 35, _____
7. 3, 5, 9, 15, 23, 33, _____
8. 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, _____
9. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, _____
10. 80, 70, 61, 53, 46, 40, _____
D. Determine whether the argument is an example of inductive reasoning or deductive reasoning. Justify.
11. All pentagons have exactly five sides. Figure A is a pentagon. Therefore, Figure A has exactly five
sides.

12. Every P.E. teacher likes to dance. Vivian is a P.E. teacher, so Vivian likes to dance.

MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVING PATTERNS.

E. Predict the next term of each sequence.
13. 1, 7, 17, 31, 49, 71, _____
14. 10, 10, 12, 16, 22, 30, _____
15. -1, 4, 21, 56, 115, 204, _____
16. 0, 10, 24, 56, 112, 190, _____
17. 17, 15, 25, 53, 105, 187, _____

F. Use the given 𝑛th term formula to compute the first ten terms of the sequence.
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18. 𝑎 =

19. 𝑎 = 5𝑛 − 3𝑛

20. 𝑎 =