Question

In each series, look for the degree and direction of change between the numbers. in other words, do the numbers increase or decrease, and by how much ?----- look at this series: 36, 34, 30, 28, 24, ... what number should come next?

Answer 1

Answer: - The next number in the given series will be 20.

                The complete series will be: -

                36, 34, 30, 28, 24, 20.

Detailed solution: -

Given: -

A series 36, 34, 30, 28, 24, ... is given.

We need to find the missing or the next number in the series.

For that we first need to look for the degree and the direction of the change between the given numbers.

We need to know the number by how much the series are increased or decreased.

For that we will subtract the second number from the first, the third number from the second, and so on.

Therefore,

$36-34$ = 2

$34-30$ = 4

$30-28$ = 2

$28-24$ = 4

So,

As we can see that once the number in the given series is decreases by 2 then by 4, again it is decreased by 2 then by 4 and so on.

So,

Therefore,

The next number in the series will be decreased by 2.

I.e.,

$24-2$ = 20

Therefore,

The next number in the given series will be 20.

The complete series will be: -

36, 34, 30, 28, 24, 20.

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