You a miguel cervantes de navas y colon, captain in the royal spanish army in seville in the year 1842. outside your barracks window is a stack of cannonballs, as shown in the illustration. on an idle afternoon you decide to calculate the number of cannonballs in the stack. what is the number of cannonballs.

650 cannonballs

Explanation step by step:

layer 12 is 12 ^ 2

The formula is:

n * (n + 1) * (2n + 1) / 6

n = 12

12 (12 + 1) (2 * 12 + 1) / 6

12 * 13 * 25/6 =

650

There are 650 cannonballs in this pyramid.

650

Step-by-step explanation:

You gotta count them down

square root of 36/6 = 2.449489743

square root of 16/6 = 1.632993162

square root of 6 = 2.449489743

the answer is square root of 16/6 because the square root of 36/6 is the same answer as square root of 6 = 2.449489743