Answer:
Joyce should write [tex]1,8,64,512,4096[/tex]
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's analyze the procedure of how the pictures are formed.
Her teacher said the images were created by taking a red square, dividing it into 9 smaller squares, and removing the center square.
For the first two images we can see and count that there is 1 red square in the first picture and 8 red squares in the second picture.
For the third image, there are 8 squares formed by 8 red squares each one.
The number of red squares is 8 x 8 = 64
We can write the sequence as
1 , 8 , 64 ⇒ 1 , 8 , [tex]8^{2}[/tex]
For the fourth picture we can do the same reasoning and figure out that there are 8 x 8 x 8 = 512 red squares in the fourth image.
The sequence so far is
1 , 8 , 64 , 512 ⇒ 1 , 8 , [tex]8^{2}[/tex] , [tex]8^{3}[/tex]
We can generalize the sequence and write that the sequence is :
[tex]8^{n}[/tex] with [tex]n[/tex] ∈ IN ⇒ The first five numbers will be
[tex]8^{0},8^{1},8^{2},8^{3},8^{4}[/tex] = [tex]1,8,64,512,4096[/tex]
