What is the shaded area?

The total area (including the area of the circle) would be 16 × 16 = 256 square centimetres.

The area of the circle would be (taking the value of pi as 3.14) is 200.96 square centimetres

The area of the shaded region would be 256 - 200. 96 = 55.04 square centimetres

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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step-by-step explanation: