Problem of the Week

Problem B
Nesting Triangles
The Sierpinski triangle is a famous example of a fractal.
Starting with a black equilateral triangle, an equilateral triangle void (shown as a
white triangle in the second diagram) one-fourth the size of the black triangle is
placed symmetrically inside the black triangle.
This process is then repeated in each of the remaining three black equilateral
triangles, creating the third diagram. And so on, repeatedly.

How many voids (white triangles) exist in the sixth Sierpinski diagram?
How many black triangles?

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Patterning and Algebra