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Use inductive reasoning to predict the most probable next number in the list.

3, 9, −3, 3, −9, −3, −15, −9, −21, ?

User Inderjit
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the answer is -15

this is because from every pair of numbers (e.g 3,9) you are always adding 6.

apply this to -21 and you would get -15

User Jakob Em
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