Sorry for the rather random post, but there is a quiz question that has been bugging me all weekend… any pointers would be welcome before I go mad.
Struggling with a quiz question
My guess is “D”
Not sure I should reveal my workings till I know if it is right!
if you could share your logic in a direct message that would be great… I will confirm on Friday if right
Well, it could be “W” or “T” also. That means three explanations and why I have gone for one of them above the others! OK, maybe later today… hopefully.
My maths teacher despised questions where you had to give the next number in a sequence - on the basis that you use any number and devise a rule that generates it
I think he might have told use how to do it as well, but I always switched off when he started on that tack, as I could see no practical value. It’s only good for annoying question setters, at the risk of losing marks.
Correction - now I’ve written it down I see I should have said the answer is “W”, with “T” a somewhat distant second.
Well, yes, but sequences and series are phenomenally important in all manner of the sciences, not to mention cryptography.
This is only a bit of fun. The answer may well be “they are the initial letters of Freddy Mercury’s other siblings”. There is always likely to be more than one answer to this sort of question - it depends on how convincing you find the answers to be. And in that context, nothing is stronger than the power of prediction. An answer that gives, say, the letter that follows after the one sought as well as that one, will be preferred over one that just predicts the missing one.
It’s up to the reader to judge whether the answer is based on sound judgment or is just like seeing faces in the fire. Or in other words, a sense of humour is a help. Caveat lector.