What will be next term of given series:
$$50, 30, 40, 75, 170, ?$$
I am not able to find the pattern in the series. Could someone help me with this?
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6Could be anything you wish. – jim Jul 15 '16 at 16:49
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2http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1790642/general-formula-for-the-1-5-19-65-211-sequence – Jack D'Aurizio Jul 15 '16 at 16:51
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See question 5 here: http://emahendras.org/downlods/Digi-Page-22-06-2016-Reasoning-English.pdf Apparently the answer is 450. – smcc Jul 15 '16 at 16:53
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1@jim I am glad to see that someone agrees with me that "the guessing of the next term from a finite number of samples" is an unfair game . – Mick Jul 15 '16 at 16:53
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2@jim I believe pattern recognition is on topic on MSE, if there exists a tag for it. So I hardly think this is a valid response. Of course the OP could try to provide more context. – Stefan Perko Jul 15 '16 at 16:53
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@smcc holy cow, those are all really difficult – Asinomás Jul 15 '16 at 16:55
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Not so difficult when the answer is given with the questions – smcc Jul 15 '16 at 16:55
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Well yeah, but even with the answers I have no idea what the reasoning is – Asinomás Jul 15 '16 at 16:57
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For example. problem $2$ the sequence is $1\times11, 2\times 11, 4\times 11, 7\times 11,11\times 11$. OEIS can find $170$ sequences starting with $1,2,4,7,11,$ and only $54$ of these predict the next term "correctly" – Asinomás Jul 15 '16 at 17:00
