Brain Game: Hollywood and Ice
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You may have to look in both two and three dimensions to solve today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Free-for-all Friday challenge. Good luck!
What two-digit number is missing from the sequence below, and why? 1, 4, 8, 9, ?, 25, 27, 36...
Here is the ANSWER.
THE ANSWER:
The missing number is 16.
The list represents the squares and cubes of integers, beginning with 1, in increasing value.
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