Question 1162437
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Don't spend too much time on any problem like this; it is IMPOSSIBLE to know the "right" answer.<br>
ANY next number will make a valid sequence.<br>
If a problem like this has an easily discernible answer, then there is a strong LIKELIHOOD that that answer is "right".<br>
But if there is no easily discernible pattern, there is no point in spending more than a minute (at most!) on the problem, since there is no way of knowing whether any answer you come up with is "right".<br>
I spent more time than I should have looking at the sequence while I was typing this response, and I see a possible pattern.<br>
The 6, 8, and 10 by themselves form a nice pattern.<br>
What is left after we account for those is three pairs of consecutive terms:
78 and 85
17 and 24
34 and ??<br>
Since in the first two pairs the difference is 7, perhaps the difference in the last pair is also 7, making the missing number 41.<br>
But that is no more than a guess.........<br>