Question

In a garden, the flowers are increasing in number.
(i) How many flowers are increasing day by day?
(ii) How many flowers will be there on the $5th$ day and how will they look?

• A. (i) $4$ flowers (ii) $17$ flowers on $5th$ day
• B. (i) $5$ flowers (ii) $18$ flowers on $5th$ day
• C. (i) $5$ flowers (ii) $16$ flowers on $5th$ day
• D. (i) $4$ flowers (ii) $16$ flowers on $5th$ day

Answer 1

The correct option is A (i) $4$ flowers (ii) $17$ flowers on $5th$ day

Number of flowers on Day $1=1$
Number of flowers on Day $2=5$
Number of flowers on Day $3=9$
Number of flowers on Day $4=13$
(i) Day by day increase in flowers $=4$


Day by day increase $=4$ flowers
(ii) Number of flowers on Day $5=$ Day $4$ flowers $+4=13+4=17$
And it will look like as follows:


Hence, Option B is correct.