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This homework is designed to give students the opportunity to use and apply Mathematics
previously learnt to solve a more complex problem.
Please remember to start this as soon as it is set so that you have enough time to
ask for help if you need it.
You will be trying to find a connection between the number of flowerbeds in a garden and
the number of paving slabs needed to surround each bed. Ideally you will be able to say
how many paving slabs will be needed provided you know how many flowerbeds there are.
Here is a plan of a garden. In the design, each flowerbed (the shaded squares) needs to
be surrounded by paving slabs (the white squares). Each paving slab is exactly the same
size as the flowerbed it surrounds.
6. What have you noticed? Can you write a rule in words? (Level 5)
8. Write your rule along the line you drew on the graph paper.
Remember to include the number of rows of flowerbeds eg R=1; Rule:P = …
9. a) Can you use your rule to predict how many paving slabs will be needed for one
row of 8 flowerbeds?
b) Can you use your rule to say how many flowerbeds are in one row if you need
33 paving slabs?
c) Can you use your graph to check your answers? (Level 5)
11. As you extend your investigation, can you see a pattern between the number of rows
and the rule for finding the number of paving slabs?
Can you predict what the rule will be when you add the next row? State what you
predict then check it.
12. Can you find a general rule (and show that it works) that links the number of rows
with the number of flowerbeds in the row (F) and the number of paving slabs (P)
needed? (level 7)
13. What do you notice about the line graphs you have drawn?
Hint: what is the same and what is different about the lines (level 6)
15. Can you spot a special pattern when the number of flowerbeds is the same as the
number of rows? Can you explain it? Can you write the rule in two different ways
and explain why they are the same? (level 8)
Flowerbeds 4 of 4
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