part 1: describe the pattern of the following sequence.
part 2: what is the next term in the sequence.

Answer:
Pattern is square of nth term and
16 squares are the next term.
Step-by-step explanation:
Here we can see that first figure has 1 dot
then second figure had 4 squares
third figure has 9 dots .
so its square of the nth term
nth term will be given by [tex]n^{2}[/tex]
for next term we shall plug n =4 which gives
[tex]4^{2}[/tex] =16
16 squares will be the next term in the sequence