document.write( "Question 963082: What letter comes next in this series?
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document.write( "We are looking for the 8th term.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Look at the odd numbered terms.  They are:\r\n" );
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document.write( "A,E,I,O\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's obviously the vowels A,E,I,O,U and the next odd \r\n" );
document.write( "term will be the last vowel U.  That will be the 9th\r\n" );
document.write( "term.  Since the sequence of odd terms is the sequence \r\n" );
document.write( "of vowels, that tells us that the pattern for the \r\n" );
document.write( "sequence of odd terms is independent of the sequence \r\n" );
document.write( "of even terms.   \r\n" );
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document.write( "So the sequence goes\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now look at the even numbered terms.  They are:\r\n" );
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document.write( "That looks like the sequence Z,B,Y,C,X,D,W, with this pattern:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Z = unused letter closest to the end of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "B = unused letter closest to the front of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "Y = unused letter closest to the end of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "C = unused letter closest to the front of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "X = unused letter closest to the end of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "D = unused letter closest to the front of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "W = unused letter closest to the end of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "E = unused letter closest to the front of the alphabet.\r\n" );
document.write( "etc.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the letter that goes 8th (where the question mark is) is C:\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer is C. \r\n" );
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