Mastering Number Sequences: Solving the Hardest Challenges on Fibonicci

[Snubb]

Hello All,

Well to make the Story short, I made a little bet in school that I could solve all the number sequences on a site, but now's the joke. I can't

Ye ye , stop laughing But really I can handle myself at numbers normally pretty well, but this seems out of my league

Can anyone solve this ?

-2 3 27 69 129 …For those interested, this is the site, and was making the hard test ofc.http://www.fibonicci.com/en/number-sequences

The Attempt at a Solution

It seems to be something like (x^n)-y

help :-)

 

[maze]

You sure it doesn't start with -5?

 

[Snubb]

yes i am sure it doesn't start with -5 :)

And I already mailed the website, but haven't gotten any reply

Have been cracking my brain on it for hours, it isn't funny anymore :(
This is def. one of, if not the hardest test i made on the web lol.

pwned

 

[Mark44]

I went to the site you posted and saw this problem among the hard problems group. The potential answers given are 178, 207, 268, and 312.

I choose 207.

Here's my reasoning:
-2 = the starting number
3 = 2² + (-1)
27 = 5² + 2
69 = 8² + 5
129 = 11² + 8
The pattern here seems to be that the number being squared increases by 3 each time, and the number added to the square also increases by 3 each time.
The next number in the list should be
14² + 11 = 196 + 11 = 207, which just happens to be one of the possible answers.

 

[Snubb]

You're Awesome!

But doesn't taht make the start nuymber -3

(-1^2)-4

^^

 

[Mark44]

Well, there's that.

Anyway, -2 = -3 for very small values of -2.

 

[csprof2000]

These problems are all sort of dumb.

For each sequence, there are infinitely many rule sets you can generate which will give you any answer you can possibly concoct. With no restrictions on the rules, the game is an exercise in futility.