What number should replace the

question mark?


Answer
86
Add five straightdown; Add ten sideways; Add fifteen diagonally.
10. What number should replace the question mark to a definite rule?


Answer
201 (add digits to previous number).

Which number does not fit in
this sequence?


Answer
8
The sequence follows the formula double Ihe previous number then add 1. etc.
16. Which number is missing?


Answer
64
Each box represents Ihe cube of numbers 1, 2,3 and 4.

Which number is missing from
the box?


Answer
9
Each row; column and diagonal adds up to 15.
18. Which number completes this sequence?


Answer
81
As you go down, subtract the sum of tne separate digits in each number from itself to give the
next number.

Which number is missing from this
wheel?


Answer
152
As you move clockwise multiple the previous number by 2 and ado 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
20. What is X?


Answer
6
The series is spaced incorrectly. When the spacing is correct it becomes: 2 4 8 16 32 64 128,
256, which is an obvious doubling-up series..

What comes
next?


Answer
5
The numbers are the alphabetical positions of the letters, spelling FACADE :
6-F; 1-A; 3-C; 1-A; 4-D; 5-E.
22. What number goes into the empty brackets?


Answer
5 6 2 5
The first number inside the brackets is the square root of the number outside the brackets. The
remaining number inside the brackets is the square of the number outside the brackets.

What comes next in this
series?


Answer
5040
Multiply each number by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and (finally) 7.
24. What comes next in the series?


Answer
16
Each number reverses the previous number and adds 1 to each digit. Thus, in the first two
terms, 16 reversed is 61, which then changes to 72. In the penultimate term, 50 reversed
becomes 05, which in turn becomes 16 - by adding 1 to each digit.

5 Friends live in the same road A, B, C, D, E.
The numbers of B, C, D when multiplied together equals 1260. The numbers B, C, D when
added equal twice Es number, and is even.As number is half as much again as Es. The road
numbers run from 2 to 222.What are the 5 house numbers?
Answer
A 36
B 4
C 9
D 35
E 24.
26. Which number goes in the center of the third triangle?


Answer
36
The answer in the centre of each triangle equals the difference between the top and left hand
values, multiplied by the right hand value.

A bag contains 64 balls of eight different colours. There are eight of each colour (including red).
What is the least number you would have to pick, without looking, to be sure of selecting 3 red
balls?
Answer
59
The first 56 balls could be of all colours except red. This would leave 8 balls, all of which are
red. so any three chosen would be red.
A driving school claims an average test pass rate of 76.8 percent. What is the least number of
pupils required to achieve this result?
Answer
125
96 passes out of 125 give an average of 76.8% .
30. Which number goes in the middle?


Answer
17
Moving diagonally downwards from loft lo right, numbers increase by the same amount each
line.

10, 50, 13, 45, 18, 38, ?, ?
What two numbers should replace the question marks?
Answer
25, 29.
There are two alternate sequences: start at 10 and add 3, 5, 7;
start at 50 and deduct 5, 7, 9.
32.
Which number is the odd one out?
9654 4832 5945 7642 7963 8216 3649
Answer
3649
In all the others multiply the first two digits together to produce the number formed by the last
two digits.
33.
1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, ?
What number should replace the question mark?
Answer
47
Each number is the sum of the previous two numbers, ie 18 + 29 = 47.
34.
70 91 120
14 13 24
5 7 ?
What number should replace the question mark?
Answer
5
70 14 = 5;
91 13 = 7,
120 24 = 5;


What number should replace the question mark?
123, 124, 126, 132, 133, 136, 142, 143, 147, ?
Answer
154
Add the first digit to arrive at the second number i.e. 123 + 1 = 124, then the second digit i.e.
124 + 2 = 126, then the third digit etc.
36.
What number comes next?
482, 693, 714, 826, 937, ?
Answer
148
The numbers 48269371 are being repeated in the same sequence.
37.
How many minutes is it before 12 noon if 20 minutes ago it was three times as many
minutes after 9 am?
Answer
40 minutes, or 11.20 am.
38.
What numbers should replace the question marks?
2 6 30 ?
3 5 11 ?
Answer
330 and 41
Multiply the two numbers of the previous pair together to obtain the top number, and add the
same two numbers to get the bottom number. So, 30 11 = 330,
30 + 11 = 41.

Which number is the odd one out?
159
248
963
357
951
852
Answer
248
In the rest there is the same difference between each digit, eg: 8 (3) 5 (3) 2.
40.
What number continues the sequence?
25, 50, 27, 46, 31, 38, 39, ?
Answer
22
There are two alternate sequences, the first increases by 2, 4, 8 etc and the second decreases by
4, 8, 16 etc.
41.
If a car had increased its average speed for a 210 mile journey by 5 mph, the journey would
have been completed in one hour less. What was the original speed of the car for the
journey?
Answer
30 mph.