Answer: What Comes Next? #177

The answer is B: orange triangle.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 3 things: orange triangle, orange triangle, yellow triangle. Then it starts again from the beginning.

The pattern as Python code

Here is a tiny Python program that follows the same rule. Type it into IDLE and run it to print the whole pattern, including the answer.

pattern = ["orange triangle", "orange triangle", "yellow triangle"]
for position in range(8):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

1 orange triangle
2 orange triangle
3 yellow triangle
4 orange triangle
5 orange triangle
6 yellow triangle
7 orange triangle
8 orange triangle