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Building Blocks
Mad Ade is bored playing with blocks while babysitting his baby cousin. To keep himself amused, without resorting to alcohol, he decides to stack up all the blocks so that each row has one less block than the row below. There are a total of 55 blocks, and Mad Ade wants to end up with just 1 block on top. How many should he put in the bottom row?
Answer
The bottom row will have 10 blocks.Start at the top and work backwards, listing rows and the total number of blocks used.
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