Quincy is making a quilt. The design for this quilt has all square pieces. It starts with a one-inch square. The second piece is also a one-inch square. Then each new square piece is added (attached) on a longer side of the evolving rectangular quilt. So, the first four square pieces may be put together like this: Suppose Quincy decides the quilt is big enough when there are ten squares in the quilt pattern. What is the size of the last square in the pattern - the 10th piece? What is the size of Quincy's quilt? That is, what are its length and width (dimensions), and what is the area covered by the quilt?

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