Apparently Simple Puzzle So a picture appeared on FB asking for the answer to the picture below, to which many people
responded "14".

Everywhere I looked, people answered 14. However, I stood out because I was the only one who said that the answer is 11.25. 
The problem can be represented algebraically  like this:
4x = 5
x  = 1.25
9x = ?
9(1.25) = 11.25
So my question is..how the heck did people get 14? Am I using the wrong approach? 
 A: The first picture shows $5$ squares, the $4$ smaller ones, along with the $2\times 2$ square.  Counting $1\times 1$, $2\times 2$, and $3\times 3$ squares, the second picture shows $14$ squares.
With this reasoning, a $4\times 4$ grid would equal $30$.

In general, an $n\times n$ grid would equal $1^2+2^2+\ldots+n^2=\frac{n(n+1)(2n+1)}{6}$.
These are the square pyramidal numbers, because they are the number of cubes needed to build a pyramid with a square base $n$ levels high.
A: I see the answer being the total number of squares, regardless of their size, but squares. Of those I see 14. 
9 small squares
4 squares (overlapping) of 4 squares each ( 1,2,4,5 - 2,3,5,6 - 4,5,7,8 - 5.6.8.9) and
1 large square.
A: I could say it is numbering the smaller boxes from $1$ like below and then adding the diagonal from top left to top right and still be correct.

Note that this is an $AP$ and can be generalized to
$$\cfrac{n(n^2 + 1)}2$$
A: Think it simply. Count the total amount of squares.
A: My answer is 20. If the first image... or pattern is valued at five then the second image has four patterns  inside of it that equal 5. So 4×5=20. I believe this is correct but i also believe that there is more than 1 correct answer to the riddle
