Question

Consider the pattern 1, 1/1/2, 1/4/3, 1/7/8,..... describe the pattern and the next 3 numbers.

Answer 1

can you draw how those numbers look like?

Answer 2

it is one half, one and three fourths, and one and seven eights.

Answer 3

Observe that you are adding three each time here:
/1/, /1+3/, /1+3+3/

Answer 4

wait what about the 1/s ?

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

they're still there right?

Answer 7

they are fractions

Answer 8

so basically you have:
1, 2/1, 3/4, 8/7

Answer 9

its 1/2 not 2/1

Answer 10

no it's 1/1/2, which is 2/1

Answer 11

yeah sorry

Answer 12

can you take a picture of the original question?

Answer 13

It is the challenge

Answer 14

now that is :
1/1 , 3/2 , 7/4, 15/8 , ....
so denominators are powers of 2 , 1,2,4,8....
and numerators have difference as powers of 2
3-1=2 , 7-3=4, 15- 7 = 8.......
got the pattern ?

Answer 15

not really

Answer 16

I got it now

Answer 17

so were u able to find next 3 numbers?

Answer 18

ohh that's not 1/1/2, that's 1 and 1/2

Answer 19

no wonder i cldn't find the pattern

Answer 20

I cant find the next 2 #'s

Answer 21

denominators will be 16,32,64 right ?
1st numerator will be 15+16=31
got that ?
2nd numerator = 31+32= 63
ok? can u find last ?

Answer 22

yes thank you so much

Answer 23

so the next numbers will be
31/16 which is 1 15/16
63/32 which is 1 31/32
and what u got last one as ?

Answer 24

1/127/128

Answer 25

did u forget 64 ?
it will be 127/64 which is 1 63/64

Answer 26

nope i got that one

Answer 27

so the next 3 numbers u were searching are :
1 15/16 , 1 31/32 , 1 63/64
right ?
1 127/128 will be the 4th. ok?

Answer 28

yep i got it