Final answer:
The question asks to find a missing coefficient in a number sequence, but there's no clear pattern with the given terms. We need more information to provide the correct answer.a
Step-by-step explanation:
The student is asking to find the missing coefficient in a sequence of numbers.
The series provided is 4, 8, 10, and a missing term indicated by a coefficient before an unknown variable (a). To find this missing coefficient, we need to look at the pattern of the sequence. Given that we have only three terms and no clear arithmetic or geometric pattern, we cannot definitively determine the missing coefficient without additional information or a clearer sequence pattern.
However, if there’s a typo and the sequence is supposed to represent an arithmetic or geometric series, we could attempt to solve by assuming a common difference or ratio.