Question

A display of gift boxes has 1 box in the top row. 3 boxes in the next row, 5 boxes in the next row, and so on. there are 7 rows in all. how many gift boxes are in the display?

Answer 1

 There is a total of 49 boxes. (1+3+5+7+9+11+13=49)

Answer 2

if you continue the pattern you should get 1+3+5+7+9+11+13. if you add them together you should get 49 total gifts.