SOLUTION: Number sequence: 23 27 24 32 23 ?

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Question 1190762: Number sequence: 23 27 24 32 23 ?
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, Alan3354:
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


All problems like this are not mathematics; they are just guessing games. You can put any number next and it will be a valid sequence.

Spend as much or as little time as you want trying to find a logical pattern in the given numbers that lets you predict the next number -- but realize that any answer you come up with might not be "right".

By looking at the sequence formed by the differences between the successive terms of the given sequence, I see a pattern that leads to a POSSIBLE answer; but there is no way to know if that answer is what the author of the problem had in mind.
   23    27    24    32    23
      +4    -3    +8    -9

It MIGHT be that the next two differences are +16 and -27....
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Yes, it is a number sequence.
Nice work.
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