Thursday, June 15, 2017

pattern - Two missing numbers


Two numbers go at the ?s, what are they and why?




733,  716,  645,  565,  324,  276,  77,  75,  64,  56,  ?,  ?



Hints



As noted in the comments these are the final two numbers in the sequence.

The sequence is strictly decreasing and contains only positive integers
(that narrows them down to 1485 choices).

We could extend the sequence to the left using the same logic, but there are many ways to do so.




Answer



The sequence is:




733, 716, 645, 565, 324, 276, 77, 75, 64, 56, 7, 4



Because:



The sequence consists of digits 1-7 and each digit x occurs x times. There is one 1, two 2s, three 3s, three 4s, five 5s, six 6s, six 7s. The next two numbers should have a 7 and a 4 in them to complete the pattern. Since the sequence is strictly decreasing, the last two numbers are 7,4.



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