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34 Arrow 58 Arrow 82 Arrow 106 Arrow b
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36 Arrow -72 Arrow 144 Arrow -288 Arrow c
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2 Arrow 4 Arrow 8 Arrow 16 Arrow d
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10 Arrow 9 Arrow 60 Arrow 90 Arrow e
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  • J Lunnon, Holgate School
  • Monday, March 19, 2007
  • "You say e = 70. 'Seventy' being the largest number spelt with 7 letters. What about 'hundred'?"
  • N Peters, Uplands Junior School
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
  • "What about million or billion or zillion ??"
  • Miss Reakes, West Island School, Hong Kong
  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009
  • "My students enjoyed doing these and I got them to write the nth term for the first 4. They all needed a hint for the 5th one.
    Hundred cannot be an answer as you would need to say how many hundreds...."
  • Ellis Mcleod, High School Of Dundee 2nd Year
  • Wednesday, March 31, 2010
  • "This game was good today, however E was very hard."
  • Bargeddie Primary, Primary 7
  • Thursday, March 31, 2011
  • "We thought that 66 was the biggest number to be spelled with 8 letters."

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a = 15 (This sequence is the 3 times table.)

b = 130 (Add 24 to the previous number.)

c = 576 (Multiply the previous number by negative two.)

d = 32 (Multiply the previous number by 2.)

e = 70 (This sequence shows the largest number which can be spelled with 3 letters, 4 letters, 5 letters etc. What would be the next number in this sequence?

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