SOLUTION: What should be the next number in the following series? 1 2 8 48 384 _ ? What should be the next letter in the following series? A Z E B I Y O _?

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Question 983194: What should be the next number in the following series? 1 2 8 48 384 _ ?
What should be the next letter in the following series? A Z E B I Y O _?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
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What should be the next number in the following series? 1 2 8 48 384 _ ?
Begin with ->         1
             1×2 =    2
             2×4 =    8
             8×6 =   48
            48×8 =  384 
           ???×? = ????
   
You can fill in those ?'s, right?

What should be the next letter in the following series? A Z E B I Y O _?
Write them in colors like this:

A Z E B I Y O ? ? 

The red ones are the vowels.  So you could easily guess what the next
red one would be.  But what about the next green one?

Z is the LAST letter of the alphabet that we haven't used already.

B is the FIRST letter of the alphabet that we haven't used already.
[Notice that we have already used A.] 

Y is the LAST letter of the alphabet that we haven't used already.
[Notice that we have already used Z.]

? is the FIRST letter of the alphabet that we haven't used already.
[Notice that we have already used A and B].

Bet you can answer that now, right?

Edwin