Question 1106827: What is next number in sequence
2, 7, 26, 101, 400
Answer by greenestamps(13200)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! It is NEVER possible, in ANY problem like this, to know the RIGHT answer.
ANY next number would make a valid sequence.
And any next number you find by a logical pattern might still be "wrong", because the author of the problem used a different logical pattern.
Since it is never possible to know the right answer, it is never worthwhile to spend much time on any problem like this. I usually spend no more than a minute or so, and if I can't see anything, I find better ways to spend my time and effort.
In this one, I see that each number is "a bit less than" 4 times the previous number.
I'll let you finish finding the pattern and thus predicting the next number.
But there is no way of knowing if this is the "right" answer....
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