Directions : what should come in place of question mark (?) in the following…

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Directions : what should come in place of question mark (?) in the following numbers series?

4096 1024 256 64 16 ?

  1. A.

    6

  2. B.

    4

  3. C.

    8

  4. D.

    9

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Correct answer: B

Looking at the first two numbers, we can see that to get from 4096 to 1024, we could subtract 3072 or divide by 4.

To get from 1024 to 256, we can either subtract 768 or divide by 4.

Thus,

we can guess that this is a geometric sequence with a pattern of

dividing by 4. We can see that this even works for getting from 256 to

64.

So, the next term in the sequence would be 64/4=16

Then, the next is 16/4=4

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