Quiz Question:

[jilles]

What comes next in the sequence: 19, 28, 38, 81, 83, 85, 89, 97 ...

[factor-fiction]

122

[BlackadderV]

The pattern being...?

[jilles]

factor-fiction - please can you explain why? On another site I received answers of 102 or 99 but have not heard back as to how these answers were arrived it.

[factor-fiction]

Definitely not 99,
102 looks as if it's right though- then 122

[factor-fiction]

Write them all as words and see what pattern you notice about the first and last letters

[factor-fiction]

Convinced, jilles?

[BlackadderV]

Got it FF. 102 is correct, then.

[hc4361]

Using first and last letters surely it would 102?

[BlackadderV]

I suppose it continues 122...192, 208

[jilles]

Yes thank-you factor-fiction. I have gone for 102.

[boxtops]

Nineteen ends in N, Twenty eight starts with T - I don't get it.

[factor-fiction]

Nineteen starts and ends with the same letter- in this case N
Twenty eight starts and ends with the same letter- in this case E
etc
One hundred and two starts and ends with the same letter (in this case it's O)

[factor-fiction]

Oops- I'll correct my typo!

Nineteen starts and ends with the same letter- in this case N
Twenty eight starts and ends with the same letter- in this case T

etc

One hundred and two starts and ends with the same letter (in this case it's O)

[BlackadderV]

All numbers start and end with the same letter, NineteeN, Twenty eightT &c.

[boxtops]

Ah - thank you!