Question 307078
Usually for middle school and such, these problems are easy. For IQ tests, they could be harder, depending on where in the IQ test they appear. 

The way to go about the easy problems, almost always, is just to subtract numbers that stand next to each other and see if the differences have a pattern.


8,11,16,23,32 

differences are 

3,5,7,9

which kind of looks like obvious!

So the next number would be 32+11=43. 

The n-th term is 

{{{system( x[0] = 3, x[n] = x[n-1]+2n+1 )}}}