Dear Reddit: Could you kindly find the next number in the sequence 95,36,15 (there is more)
Posted Mar 7, 2009, 9:37 PM UTC
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I was solving an intelligence quiz and these are the numbers that neither I nor my friends could solve. We have been fixated on the issue for a while now and would appreciate your ideas.
the other sequences are:
1588,1829,2148,2204,2284
923,937,963
471,480,492,504,513,519,531
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the first sequence was (9)*(5-1) = 36...and so on. So the last number is 4. Still looking for others.
cheers.
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interesting coincidence where (23-9)+923=937, but that doesn't hold for the others.
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Beware, sometimes these are a stitch up. If they ask you to infer a rule my bet is that some joker has given you at least one problem where the solution is along the frustratingly simple (yet difficult to get) lines of 'ascending/descending numbers'. Some psychologist pulled this trick on a brainiac for a study he was doing and got assaulted for his troubles, if I remember rightly.
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42
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Here's a random coincidence for the second one:
9+2+3 = 14 14+923 = 937
9+3+7+(.5)(9+2+3) = 26 26+937 = 963
That's just a coincidence, but...
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This could be a POSSIBILTY:
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9 x 5 = 45; 45 - 9 = 36 //9 ref. to 1st digit of 95.
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3 x 6 = 18; 18 - 3 = 15 //3 ref. to first digit of 36.
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1 x 5 = 15; 15 - 1 = 14 //1 ref. to first digit of 15.
Thus, 14 is the Answer.
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For some reason I feel an overwhelming urge to kill Andrew Ryan.