Question

How do you find the next two terms in 0, 3, 8, 15, 24?

Answer 1

`35` and `48`

Explanation:

How do we get from `0` to `3`? One way would be to add `3`.

How about from `3` to `8`? Here, we can add `5`.

What about `8` to `15`? We could add `7`. You may be noticing a pattern here.

What do we do to get from `15` to `24`? We can add `9`.

It appears that we are adding two more than we previously did to get to the next number.

To get our last term, we added `9`, so let's add two more than that, `11`, to get to the next term.

`24+11=35` (this is our sixth term)

We can add two more than `11`, or `13` to the last term to get

`48`

Therefore, the next two terms would be `35` and `48`.

Hope this helps!