Question

Predict the next number in the sequence: 1, 4, 16, 64…

512

244

384

256

Answer 1

Explanation:

Notice that:

1 * 4 = 4,

4 * 4 = 16,

16 * 4 = 64.

Each term is 4 times of the previous term.

Hence the next term would be 64 * 4 = 256.