document.write( "Question 1101010: The term that succeed 1000 in the series 13,26,39........is? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #715588 by KMST(5328)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! The word \"succeeds\" in the wording of the question puzzles me. \n" ); document.write( "I do not know what was meant by that. \n" ); document.write( "When we are given the first few terms of a sequence, \n" ); document.write( "we have to guess what is the idea of the person designing the sequence. \n" ); document.write( "We expect it to be a popular choice, one that most math teachers and students would expect. \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "13,26,39........is expected to be an arithmetic sequence \n" ); document.write( "where each term is the previous term plus 13. \n" ); document.write( "They are all multiples of 13, \n" ); document.write( "so 1000 is not a term of that sequence, \n" ); document.write( "but 1001=77*13 is the 77th term, and the first term exceeding 1000. \n" ); document.write( "The 1000th term is \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "UNCOMMON DESIGNS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THAT SEQUENCE: \n" ); document.write( "13,26,39,412,515,618,721,824,927,1030,1133,... \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "Maybe the person designing that problem has a good imagination. \n" ); document.write( "13,26,39,4=,5e,6y,7o,8],... \n" ); document.write( " |