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| Question 943739:  What is the next number in this pattern? 6, 18, 35, 62, 109, ____ . I have try adding going up.I multied.
 Answer by richard1234(7193)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! One approach is to look at the differences between terms: 
 12, 17, 27, 47
 
 Then the differences between terms of the previous sequence:
 
 5, 10, 20
 
 We can try assigning 40 as the next term in the above sequence (since it appears to double), so the difference in the first sequence would be 47+40 = 87. By this rule, the next term would be 109+87 = 196.
 
 There are probably other approaches that give different answers, which is why these sequence problems usually aren't very good.
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