M3 Check-in Activity 4

Instruction:

Kindly read the problem carefully and present your solution applying
patterns.

1. Jacob takes up jogging. On the first week she jogs for 15 minutes per
day, on the second week she jogs for 18 minutes per day. Each week, he
wants to increase his jogging time by 3 minutes per day. If he jogs 5 days
each week, what will be his total jogging time on the 8th week?

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8

15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36

3 3 3 3 3 3 3
15 x 5 18x5 21x5 24x5 27x5 30x5 33x5 36 x5
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8
75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180

Jacob total jogging time on the 8th week is 180 minutes.

2. You arrange tennis balls in triangular shapes as shown. How many

balls will there be in a triangle that has 8 rows?

Layer = 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

Rows = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Balls= 1 3 6+4 10+5 15+6 21+7 28+8 36

There are 36 tennis balls in 8 layers.