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ROHIT11111 wrote:What comes next in the series?
5, 16, 60, 236, 940, ..........

This would never be an official GMT question.

Cheers,
Brent

ROHIT11111 wrote:What comes next in the series?
5, 16, 60, 236, 940, ..........

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.

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.

Cheers,
Brent