Katie has started making patterns out of parallelogram tiles.
Pattern 1 2 tiles
Pattern 2 6 Tiles
Pattern 3 12 Tiles

1. How many parallelogram tiles will be in pattern 6 ? Explain how you know.
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2. Determine a function between the pattern number and the number of parallelogram tiles.
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Show how you figured it out.
3. Katie announces that she can use the same pattern and create 184 tiles. Explain why Katie is incorrect.

4. Katie notices that all the function results are even numbers. Explain why the number of tiles from the pattern will always be even.