Joey Logano and the No. 22 Shell-Pennzoil Ford Fusion race team won the pole and held on to the lead for the race victory at the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS) in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition on Sunday, June 12th.
How many squares are there on a chess board? The board has 8 squares along the bottom and 8 squares up the side, so most people would say the answer is 8x8 =64.
Looking at the differences in the number of squares in a 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. sided board, I noticed the pattern 1, 4, 9, 16, ... Those are perfect squares, so all you have to do to find how many squares there are on an n sided board is add n^2 to the number of squares on an n-1 sided board.