document.write( "Question 1063042: 2,7,3,26,4 what will be the next one??? and what will be the explanation?? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #678056 by Edwin McCravy(20065)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "The odd numbered terms go 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...  add 1 each time\r\n" );
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document.write( "The even numbered terms go 7, 26, 45, 64, 83, 102, ... add 19 each time.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the next term after 4 is 45.\r\n" );
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document.write( "[It could also be 7+26 which is 33, instead of 45.]\r\n" );
document.write( "There are thousands of other possible answers, too,\r\n" );
document.write( "but these are as good as any, and they're simple.  I \r\n" );
document.write( "cannot understand why schools are teaching such problems \r\n" );
document.write( "as this, as if there were only one answer, when there \r\n" );
document.write( "are many.\r\n" );
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