SOLUTION: 96,12,120,10,140,?

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Question 1093043: 96,12,120,10,140,?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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You can NEVER be SURE of the answer to any problem like this. Any pattern you find in the given numbers might be completely different from the "correct" pattern.


But this sequence has a nice pattern that is LIKELY to be the correct one.

Look at what each term gets multiplied by to get the next term:
96%2A%281%2F8%29+=+12
12%2A%2810%29+=+120
120%2A%281%2F12%29+=+10
10%2Ax+=+140

What value of x makes that equation true?

Look at the pattern of the multipliers....