Find the missing term that can replace the question mark (?) in the series given below : A2Y, B8V, D33R, ?, K765G.
Find the missing term that can replace the question mark (?) in the series given below : A2Y, B8V, D33R, ?, K765G.
Solution
Let's look at the first letters of all the given terms first.
From A to B, we skip no letters.
From B to D, we skip one letter.
Hence, from D, we'll skip 2 letters (E,F) to go to G. Hence, Options 2 and 3 are eliminated.
Now Options 1 and 4, both have G and M as their first and last letters respectively. We only have to figure out the relation between the numbers.
Now this one is surely tricky.
Taking 2 from the first term, we multiply by 2 and add 4 to go to 8.
Then, from 8, we multiply by 3 and add 9 to go to 33.
The pattern here is multiplying by consecutive numbers, starting from 2, and adding to it, the square of that number. As we can see above, and
Hence, the next number should be
Hence, the answer is G148M.