The lunchroom workersare giving away free cookies today. They gave the first graders 4 cookies. They gave the second graders 8 cookies. They gave the third graders 12 cookies. They gave the fourth graders 16 cookies. If the pattern continues, how many cookies will the seventh graders receive?

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
15 years ago

With each grade, the workers added 4 cookies.

1st -- 4
2nd -- 8
3rd -- 12
4th -- 16
5th -- 20
6th -- ??
7th -- ??

User Icon for katelynn katelynn answered
15 years ago

6th-- 24

7th-- 28

Duh, I'm in 5th grade. Baby work for me!!!

User Icon for Suzy Jones Suzy Jones answered
6 years ago

Katelynn LOL

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago

To find out how many cookies the seventh graders will receive, we need to identify the pattern in the number of cookies given to each grade. From the information provided, we can observe that the number of cookies given to each grade increases by 4 each time.

For example:
1st graders: 4 cookies
2nd graders: 8 cookies (4 cookies + 4 cookies)
3rd graders: 12 cookies (8 cookies + 4 cookies)
4th graders: 16 cookies (12 cookies + 4 cookies)

We can see that the number of cookies increases by 4 each time. Therefore, for each subsequent grade, we need to add 4 more cookies.

To find out how many cookies the seventh graders will receive, we can use the pattern:

5th graders: 16 cookies + 4 cookies = 20 cookies
6th graders: 20 cookies + 4 cookies = 24 cookies
7th graders: 24 cookies + 4 cookies = 28 cookies

Therefore, the seventh graders will receive 28 cookies.