document.write( "Question 433445: Can someone help with this, supply the missing term in the sequence. 25,23,19,13,___.. Thanks \n" ); document.write( "

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25,23,19,13,___..
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document.write( "To get from the 1st term 25 to the 2nd term 23, we must subtract 2.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To get from the 2nd term 23 to the 3rd term 19, we must subtract 4.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To get from the 3rd term 19 to the 4th term 13, we must subtract 6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Look at those red number that we subtracted each time to get the next term.\r\n" );
document.write( "Do you see a pattern? 2,4,6,\r\n" );
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document.write( "Don't you think the next number to subtract would be 8?\r\n" );
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document.write( "To get from the 4th term 13 to the 5th term, we must subtract 8, and get 5.\r\n" );
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