AU Exponential Growth in Chessboard Rice Discussion

I’m working on a mathematics discussion question and need the explanation and answer to help me learn. Option 2: A person puts an empty chessboard on a table and puts one grain of rice on the first square. Then two grains on the second square, four on the third, eight on the fourth, and so forth, doubling the amount of rice each square. How much rice will be on the 10th alone? How much rice will be on squares 1 through 10? Which square of the board will have close to 30 trillion pieces of rice?

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