Find out the missing term of the number series given below.
25, ?, 256, 476, 745, 1050
Correct Answer :
100
Solution :
The correct answer is 100.
To find the missing term in the number series, let us analyze the differences between consecutive terms in the series: 25, ?, 256, 476, 745, 1050.
First, we calculate the differences between the known consecutive terms at the end of the series:
Now, let us examine the differences of these differences (the second level of differences):
We can observe a clear pattern where the second-level differences are consecutive perfect squares in decreasing order (, , ...). Continuing this pattern backward, the preceding second-level differences must be:
Using these values, we can determine the first-level differences for the beginning of the series:
Let the difference between 256 and the missing term (?) be :
Let the difference between the missing term (?) and 25 be :
Now, we can find the missing term by adding to the first term:
We can verify this result with the next term:
, which perfectly matches the third term in the series.
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