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NUMBER AND LETTER SERIES : LOGICAL REASONING MCQs

Number Series, Letter Series

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Question 261. What number should come next?
9 12 11 14 13 16 15
  1.    14 13
  2.    14 17
  3.    18 21
  4.    18 17
  5.    12 13
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 18 17

This is a simple alternating addition and subtraction series. First, 3 is added, then 1 is subtracted, then 3 is added, 1 subtracted, and so on.


Question 262. What number should come next?
40 40 31 31 22 22 13
  1.    13 4
  2.    9 4
  3.    13 5
  4.    4 4
  5.    4 13
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 13 4

This is a subtraction series with repetition. Each number repeats itself and then decreases by 9.


Question 263. What number should come next?
4 8 22 12 16 22 20 24
  1.    22 26
  2.    28 22
  3.    32 36
  4.    28 32
  5.    22 28
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option E. -> 22 28

This is an alternating repetition series, with a random number, 22, interpolated as every third number into an otherwise simple addition series. In the addition series, 4 is added to each number to arrive at the next number.


Question 264. What number should come next?
1 10 7 20 13 30 19
  1.    40 25
  2.    29 36
  3.    26 40
  4.    40 50
  5.    25 31
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 40 25

Here, every other number follows a different pattern. In the first series, 6 is added to each number to arrive at the next. In the second series, 10 is added to each number to arrive at the next.


Question 265. What number should come next?
10 20 25 35 40 50 55
  1.    60 75
  2.    60 65
  3.    70 65
  4.    65 70
  5.    60 70
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 65 70

This is an alternating addition series, in which 10 is added, then 5, then 10, and so on.


Question 266. What number should come next?
42 40 38 35 33 31 28
  1.    26 22
  2.    25 23
  3.    26 23
  4.    26 24
  5.    25 22
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 26 24

This is an alternating subtraction series in which 2 is subtracted twice, then 3 is subtracted once, then 2 is subtracted twice, and so on.


Question 267. What number should come next?
36 31 29 24 22 17 15
  1.    10 8
  2.    13 8
  3.    13 11
  4.    10 5
  5.    12 7
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 10 8

This is an alternating subtraction series, which subtracts 5, then 2, then 5, and so on.


Question 268. What number should come next?
8 12 9 13 10 14 11
  1.    15 19
  2.    8 15
  3.    8 5
  4.    15 12
  5.    14 11
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 15 12

This is an alternating addition and subtraction series, in which the addition of 4 is alternated with the subtraction of 3.


Question 269. What number should come next?
13 29 15 26 17 23 19
  1.    21 23
  2.    20 17
  3.    25 27
  4.    22 20
  5.    20 21
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option E. -> 20 21

Here, there are two alternating patterns, with every other number following a different pattern. The first pattern begins with 13 and adds 2 to each number to arrive at the next; the alternating pattern begins with 29 and subtracts 3 each time.


Question 270. What number should come next?
3 5 35 10 12 35 17
  1.    19 24
  2.    22 24
  3.    22 35
  4.    35 19
  5.    19 35
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option E. -> 19 35

This is an alternating addition series, with a random number, 35, interpolated as every third number. The pattern of addition is to add 2, add 5, add 2, and so on. The number 35 comes after each "add 2" step/


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