Pattern Qs 1

1.The seats in a hall are numbered as shown:

Whiteboard

Row 1: 1
Row 2: 3 5
Row 3: 7 9 11
Row 4: 13 15 17 19
Row 5: 21 23 25 27 29

(a) Find the seat number in the middle of row 7.

(b) If Cynthia’s seat number is 85, which row is she seated at?
(c) The hall has a maximum of 15 rows.
What is the number of the last seat?

(2016 GongShan Pri P5SA2/P2/Q17)

Ans: a)49, b) 9, c) 239

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Pattern Qs 2

2. Study the pattern below.

Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 4 Pattern 5 …

1 2 3 4 5
2 6 12 20 ? ...

(a) In Pattern 5, what is the missing number in the box?

(b) Find the missing numerator and denominator in Pattern 20.

(2016 Kuo Chuan P5 SA2 Q10)

Ans: a) 30, b) 20, 420

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Pattern Qs 3

3. The mosaic wall below is a pattern made using black, grey and white tiles.
The pattern continues to Column 100 and Row 100. Column 6 Row 3 is a grey tile.

Column
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . . . 100
Row
1

6
.
.
.
100

(a) Which colour is the square tile on Column 7 Row 50?

(b) Which colour is the square tile on Column 31 Row 1?
(c) What is the total number of white tiles used on the whole mosaic wall?

( 2016 Mee Toh School P5/SA2/P2/Q18)

Ans: a) Black, b) White, c) 5000

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Pattern Qs 4

4. Which column can number 73 be found in the table below?

(2016 Temasek Primary School P6SA1/Paper1/Q28)

P Q R S T U
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 …

Answer: __________________

5. Sharmaine threaded some beads. She threaded 5 square beads between 2 round beads.
How many square beads did Sharmaine use if she used a total of 379 beads?

(2016 Temasek Primary School SA1/Paper2/Q5)

Ans: _________________
(Ans: 315)

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Pattern Qs 5

6. The table is filled with numbers in a certain pattern.

The first 4 rows of the table are shown.
Column A Column B Column C Column D …
Row 1 1
Row 2 2 3
Row 3 4 5 6
Row 4 7 8 9 10

⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮ ⋮

In which column will the number 57 appear?

1. Column A
2. Column B
3. Column C
4. Column D

(2018Clementi Primary School P6 Prelims/Paper1/Q14)

7. Lydia was given a job to make 350 keychains. She made 20 keychains each
day from Monday to Friday and 25 keychains each day on Saturday and
Sunday. Starting on a Tuesday, on which day of the week did Lydia complete
the job?
(2018 Clementi Primary School P6 Prelims/Paper1/Q25)

Ans: ___________
(Ans: Thursday)

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Pattern Qs 6

7. Farah uses black and white buttons to form figures that follow a pattern. The first
four figures are shown below.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

(a) The table shows the number of black and white buttons used for each figure.
Complete the table for Figure 5.

Figure Number 1 2 3 4 5

Number of 0 1 3 6
black buttons

Number of 1 4 9 16
white buttons

Total number 1 5 12 22
of buttons

[1]

(b) A figure in the pattern has a total of 176 black and white buttons. What is the Figure
Number?

(c) A figure in the pattern has 784 white buttons. How many black buttons are there in
that figure?

(2018 Henry Park Primary School P6 Prelims/Paper2/Q17)

Ans: (b) Figure ______________ [2]

(c) ____________________ [2]

Ans: a) 10, 25, 35 | b) Fig 11 | c) 378

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Pattern Qs 7

8. Joel uses shaded and unshaded triangles to form figures that follow a pattern as
shown below.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

(a) The table below shows the number of shaded and unshaded triangles for the
first four figures. Complete the table for Figure 5.

Figure Number 1 2 3 4 5
Number of shaded
0 1 3 6
triangles
Number of unshaded
1 3 6 10
triangle

Total number of triangles 1 4 9 16

[1]
(b) What is the total number of triangles needed to form Figure 25?

(c) Another figure in the pattern has 20 more unshaded triangles than shaded
triangles. What is the total number of shaded triangles in this figure?

(2018 Mee Toh P6 Prelims/Paper2/Q17)

Ans: (b) ____________________________

(c) ____________________________

Ans: b) 625, c) 190

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Pattern Qs 8

9. Celine placed some identical cubes in a pattern as shown below.

She used 6 cubes for column 1, 3 cubes for column 2, 1 cube for column 3 and so
on.

- The End -

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … …

(a) How many cubes did Celine use for column 12?
(b) Celine continued the pattern until column 56. What was the total number of
cubes used from columns 1 to 56?
( 2020 Blangah Rise Primary P6 Prelims/Paper2/Q17)

Ans: a)_________

b)_________
Ans: a) 3, b) 182

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Pattern Qs 9

10. A table with 4 columns is filled with numbers in a certain pattern.

Row 1 has 4 numbers. From row 2 onwards, there are only 3 numbers.

Column A Column B Column C Column D

Row 1 1 2 3 4
Row 2 7 6 5
Row 3 8 9 10
Row 4 13 12 11

...

...

...
...

...

In which column will the number 441 appear?

(2020 PHPPS P6 Prelims/Paper1Q28)

Ans: Column _________

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Pattern Qs 10

11. Study the pattern below and answer the following questions.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Figure Number Number of squares Number of circles Total number of

squares and circles
1 2 1 3

2 6 2 8

3 12 3 15
…

…
8 ________ [ 1 ] ________ [ 1 ] ________ [ 1 ]

(a) Complete the table for figure 8.

(b) Which figure has 380 squares?

(b)_______________

Ans: b) Fig 19

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Pattern Qs 11

12. Winstedt Road is decorated with light bulbs of different colours. The light bulbs
are placed at 2 m apart. The colour of the light bulbs follow a repeated colour
pattern as shown below.

Red Blue Green Yellow Red Red Blue Green Yellow Red Red

2m

Complete the table below.

Light Bulb Number Colour

1 Red
2 Blue
3 Green
4 Yellow
5 Red
6 Red
7 Blue
8 Green
9 Yellow
. .
. .
. .
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(a) _____________________ [1]

The total length of Winstedt Road is 2.5 km long,

b) How many light bulbs are there along Winstedt Road ?

c) How many light bulbs are red in colour?

(2016 ACS Pri P6 SA1/Paper2/Q18)

Ans: b)___________

c)____________

Ans: a) Yellow, b) 1251, c) 501

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Pattern Qs 12

13. A wall mural is designed using grey and white tiles. The figures below show the
first 3 patterns designed.

Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3

The number of grey tiles and white tiles used for each pattern is recorded in the
table below.

Pattern Number of grey tiles Number of white tiles

1 1 8
2 4 12
3 9 16
4 16 20

5 (a) 24

(a) Fill in the number of grey tiles in Pattern 5 in the box above.
(b) If there are 169 grey tiles, how many white tiles will there be?
(c) What is the total number of grey and white tiles used for the 12th pattern?

Answer: (a) _______________ [1]

(b) _______________ [2]

(c) _______________ [2]

Ans: a) 25, b) 56, c) 196

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Pattern Qs 13

14. Ali uses rods to form figures that follow a pattern. The first five figures
are shown below.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5

(a) The table below shows the number of rods used and the number of
triangles found in each figure. Complete the table for Figure 6.

Figure Number Number of rods used Number of triangles

1 6 4
2 9 4
3 16 12
4 17 8
5 26 20
6 25
[1]

(b) How many rods would he use in Figure 7?

(c) How many rods would he use in Figure 30?

(2018 Red Swatiska School P6 Prelims/Paper2/Q17)

Ans: a)__________

b)__________

c)__________

Ans: a) 12, b) 36, c) 121

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Pattern Qs 14

15. Betty and her sister wanted to decorate the wall with coloured papers as shown
in the pattern below using squares of sides 12 cm each.

Find the minimum number of pieces of square papers that they need to build a
pattern which is at least 1 m in height.

Ans: ______________

(Ans: 45)

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Pattern Qs 15

16. Study the pattern below. The first four figures are shown.

Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

The table below shows the number of sticks and dots used to form each
figure.

Figure Number Number of sticks Number of dots

1 4 4
2 12 9
3 24 16
4 40 25

(a) How many dots are used to form Figure 12?

(b) Which figure number has 612 sticks?

(2016 CBS P6 Prelims/Paper2/Q16)

Ans: a)____________

b)____________

Ans: a) 169, b) 17

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