Kiwivillan Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Anyone good with number series? Can't figure this one out 10, 16, 12, 8, 16, x x can be 12 or 32 or 20 or 18 Can't make a case for any of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 +6, -4, -4, +8 nope i don't have a clue! is there a context to this? also, why are you asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15, 2012 I can't see a pattern. My guess is it's gong to be something not directly related to the sequence. Like the years England won the world cup (obviously it's not that, but you take my point.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15, 2012 I fi tis to do with the sequence, my only suggestion would that it would be 4 or 2, based on an alternating sequence. But that doesn't match your possible answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 converted into letters: J, P, L, H, P. its not years its not months its not lottery numbers they are all even numbers though.... hmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15, 2012 Where did the question originate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Anyone good with number series? Can't figure this one out 10, 16, 12, 8, 16, x x can be 12 or 32 or 20 or 18 Can't make a case for any of them? I would say the answer is 32. 10 add 6 = 16, 6 add 6 =12. 8 add 8 =16, 16 add 16 = 32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zak Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 found it? 12!! :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 The answer is 42. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 42 is meaning of life. For Brain Challenge fund raising thing at work. We went mad trying to figure it out and just went with 12 for pattern matching. Was correct. Very annoying as not a number series at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 15, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15, 2012 Still don't know why it's 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 eh? so its just a random set of numbers from a random document somewhere? so its not actually solvable using your brain, which defeats the point of it being in a Brain Challenge. tell the organisers "FAIL". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 eh? so its just a random set of numbers from a random document somewhere? so its not actually solvable using your brain, which defeats the point of it being in a Brain Challenge. tell the organisers "FAIL". Frustrating indeed. Not arithmetic or geometric. Not even red herring repeated numbers if removed a series appears. Just silly pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Glad I'm too old for homework! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoD Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 I usually ace number patterns testing (stupid financial institutes made me do so many when I was trying to get a grad job), this one doesn't seem to make any sense. If I had to say something I would go with 18. The pattern seems to follow every second number. so from 10 we go +2 then from 12 we go +4 and then from 16 it would go +6. Then 10 to 16 is +6, 12 to 8 is -4 and then 16 to x would be +2. I'm definitely reaching but thats the best justification I could come up with for any answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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