In "A Pattern of Numbers" you were asked to find the relationship between numbers appearing in a pattern. This puzzle uses a similar, yet different, criterion.
Can you discover the relationship between the numbers and figure out what number belongs at the X in this pattern? The same rule applies to each set of numbers in the pattern.

  34  32  36  46  64  75  50  35  34
16  18  14  22   X  40  35  15  20  12

The numbers next to each other on the bottom are added to get the number inbetween them on the top.  This works for all except the last one, where 20+12 would be 32 not 34.  Ignoring this:

X=24

Posted by trey on 2005-07-29 04:35:44