Question

24,72,216,648,in thenumber pattern above each term is three times the previous term which of the following it also true about the pattern? is there a all of the numbers are oddall the numbers are multiples of 6 all the numbers have 5 as a factor all of the numbers are prime

Answer 1

What is also true about the number pattern is that;

All the numbers are multiples of 6

Here, apart from the stated fact about the number pattern, we want to select another correct thing about the pattern

To do this, we shall be considering the options;

a) All the numbers are odd

This is incorrect. As we can see, all the numbers are ending with an even number. This shows that all the numbers in the pattern are even

b) All the numbers are multiples of 6

We simply will check if this is correct by factoring out 6 out of each of the numbers

We have;

72 = 6(12)

24 = 6(4)

216 = 6(36)

648 = 6(108)

As we can see, all the numbers have six as a factor and this makes the option the correct one