
Originally Posted by
Heinsbergrelatz
strangely enough, these are questions from the last year exam paper.
Whoever wrote the question should have failed.
This sort of questin is not uncommon. It is not, however, a valid mathematical question.
Simply writing down the first few terms of a sequence, does not tell you what the next number will be. It could, literally, be anything.
All of these are valid:
3,5,7,... ( next nuber is 9 which is the next odd number)
3,5,7, ... (next number is 11 which the next odd pime)
3,5,7,... ( next number is 23785 because that is what I wanted to list next and there is no general term for the nth number)