Question

What would be the next number in the pattered 64, 16,4,1

Answer 1

Answer:

The next number would be 256

Answer 2

Answer:

1/4 or 0.25

Step-by-step explanation:

Let's start from right to left.

How would you get from the number 1 to 4? You would multiply 1 by 4 to get to 4, right? And if that's true, then it must be true for the rest of them.

Let's multiply 4 by 4 and we get 16, the next number shown.

One more time, if we multiply 16 by 4, we'd get 64, so it seems like we are multiplying by 4s right to left.

But we are not going from 1 to 64, rather 64 to 1. To figure out the next number in the sequence, just do the opposite of multiplying by 4 which is dividing by 4

So, 64 divided by 4 will give you 16, dividing 16 by 4 will giving you 4, and dividing 4 by 4 will give you 1.

To get to the next number of the sequence, all that's left to do is divide 1 by 4, which is 1/4 in fraction and 0.25 in decimal.

Hope this helps :)