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Travi
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verbal reasoning - next in sequence

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Please can someone help me with the next in sequence

57, 56, 54, 52,50,47,45,41,39 ....

And why..thank you.
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Re: verbal reasoning - next in sequence

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Travi wrote:Please can someone help me with the next in sequence

57, 56, 54, 52,50,47,45,41,39 ....

And why..thank you.
Might be 2 alternate sequences

57 54 50 45 39 (going down by 3,4,5,6 )

and

56 52 47 41 ( going down by 4,5,6 )
streathammum
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Re: verbal reasoning - next in sequence

Post by streathammum »

If you read it out to yourself, you can see that it goes:

Take away 1, take away 2, take away 2, take away 2, take away 3, take away 2, take away 4, take away 2.

So I think there are two rules, applying alternately.
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Re: verbal reasoning - next in sequence

Post by Aethel »

I agree, hermanmunster has it right: I've seen this type of intermixed-sequence in the CGP CEM-style pastpapers. The first and second numbers are independent of each other and it's spotting the simple partern that's important.

It's a lot more blatent with some of the examples.
I think the one in DD's pastpaper went:

1, 8, 2, 7, 3, 6, .....


(This one is add-one then take-away-one , alternating each sequence, so the
First set of linked numbers is 1....2...3.... answer would be 4, and the "other" set of numbers is ....8....7....6.... )
Travi
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Re: verbal reasoning - next in sequence

Post by Travi »

Thank you all. I managed to work it out just before seeing your replies so was great to confirm i was on the right track.

Thanks again
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