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Question from julia, a student:

patterns
18 46 94 63 52 61 what is the next one?

Julia,

Look in the mirror.

Penny

Julia wrote back

the anwser did not help me ...look in the mirror? i dont get it?

Julia,

Look in the mirror wasn't quite right. Try this.

You have a string of symbols: 1, 8, space, 4, 6, space,...

Write the string in the opposite order: 1, 6, space, 2, 5, space...

Penny

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