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This would never be an official GMT question.ROHIT11111 wrote:What comes next in the series?
5, 16, 60, 236, 940, ..........
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I've never seen a GMAT question involving a sequence without any information regarding its pattern, and I'm pretty sure that I never will. The reason for this is that can be more than one way to describe the pattern within any sequence of numbers.ROHIT11111 wrote:What comes next in the series?
5, 16, 60, 236, 940, ..........
For example, what comes next in this sequence: 1, 2, 4, ... ?
Well, perhaps we're doubling each number, in which case the next value is 8
Or, perhaps we're adding 1, then 2, then 3 then 4 (etc), in which case the next value is 7
Yes, I can see that having 5 values reduces the number of possible scenarios, but the rationale for why the GMAT would not test this still stands.
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the answer is 2816ROHIT11111 wrote:What comes next in the series?
5, 16, 60, 236, 940, ..........
But as stated above these type of questions can never appear in GMAT
also ALWAYS post options!!!!
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