Question

What is the most probable next item in the pattern 100, 81, 64, 49, ... ?

Answer 1

Notice how 49 = 7^2 = 7*7, 64 = 8^2 = 8*8, etc etc

Answer 2

Aren't you seeing a square pattern there ??

Answer 3

yes

Answer 4

can you say what will be the next term ??

Answer 5

here you have a series that follows a pattern such as \[[x(n)] ^{2}\]
Now as we proceed from 100 to 49in the series, these are the squares of 10,9,8,7 and so the next number will be the square of 6 i.e 36.

Answer 6

100 is square of 10
81 is square of 9
64 is square of 8
49 is square of 7.
.... is square of ... ??