If the figure in the left is named figure 0. The one in the middle is named figure 1 and the one in the right is named figure 2, find the number of triangles in the figure that follows this pattern.
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In figure 0, there are 3 triangles.
In figure 1, there are 1 2 triangles.
In figure 2, there are 2 9 triangles.
In figure 3, there are 5 6 triangles.
(For clarification):-
In figure 4, there are 9 5 triangles.
In figure 5, there are 1 4 8 triangles.
We see that in the n th figure, there are i = 0 ∑ n ( i 2 + 5 i + 3 )
So, in the 2 0 1 6 th figure, there would be:-
n = 0 ∑ 2 0 1 6 ( n 2 + 5 n + 3 )
= 2743384227 quadrilaterals. □