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

x=24 because the top minus the one on the bottom to the left of it equals the one on the right of the one you subtract from. because:

34-16=18, 32-18=14, etc.

Posted by jessica on 2005-11-23 09:41:53