Question 1190762
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All problems like this are not mathematics; they are just guessing games.  You can put any number next and it will be a valid sequence.<br>
Spend as much or as little time as you want trying to find a logical pattern in the given numbers that lets you predict the next number -- but realize that any answer you come up with might not be "right".<br>
By looking at the sequence formed by the differences between the successive terms of the given sequence, I see a pattern that leads to a POSSIBLE answer; but there is no way to know if that answer is what the author of the problem had in mind.<br><pre>
   23    27    24    32    23
      +4    -3    +8    -9</pre>
It MIGHT be that the next two differences are +16 and -27....<br>