There's a thing about patterns- if you don't have enough of the beginning of a pattern, there can be more than one pattern that fits the beginning numbers you have. Example:
What is the next number in the pattern: 1, ?
Is that pattern 1, 2, 3, 4. . . or maybe 1, 3, 5, 7, . . . or 1, 4, 9, 16. . . or 1, 2, 6, 24. . .
We can't tell how the pattern 1, . . . continues because we don't have enough starting numbers.
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What is the next number in the pattern 4, 8, 11, 17 ?
How much is added between each number in 4, 8, 11, 17?
4, 3, 6 (no obvious pattern)
If we subtract 4 from each term, what do we get?
0, 4, 7, 13 (no obvious pattern)
If we do term - n^2 for each term, what do we get?
-3, -4, 2, 1 (no obvious pattern?
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I don't see a pattern. If anyone else sees it, please post it here. If you (the poster) get the answer in class or from a fellow student, please post it here. Also, please check the problem and make sure you wrote it here correctly.
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