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Describe a pattern in each sequence. What are the next two terms of each sequence? 24,22,20,18

A.) Multiply the previous term by -2;-36,72

B.) Multiply the previous term by -2; 16, 72

C.) Subtract 2 from the previous term; 16, 14

D.) Add 2 to the previous term; 20, 22

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the answer is C cause your moving to the right .if you were moving to the left it would be D

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We will see that this is an arithmetic sequence whose common difference is -2, so the correct option is C.

How to find the pattern in a sequence?

There are two basic ways to find patterns, one is for arithmetic sequences, where we subtract consecutive terms to find if the difference is always the same.

The other is for geometric sequences, where we take the quotients between consecutive terms to see if the ratio is always the same.

Let's do the first test here, the sequence is: 24, 22, 20, 18

By taking the differences we get:

22 - 24 = -2

20 - 22 = -2

18 - 20 = -2

So this is an arithmetic sequence, and the common difference is -2.

This means that to get a new term, we need to add -2 (or subtract 2) to the previous term.

So the next terms in the sequence will be:

18 - 2 = 16

16 - 2 = 14

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Then we conclude that the correct option is C.

If you want to learn more about sequences, you can read:

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