Answer: What Comes Next? #266

The answer is B: purple hexagon.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 4 things: purple triangle, purple hexagon, purple circle, purple hexagon. 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 = ["purple triangle", "purple hexagon", "purple circle", "purple hexagon"]
for position in range(10):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

1 purple triangle
2 purple hexagon
3 purple circle
4 purple hexagon
5 purple triangle
6 purple hexagon
7 purple circle
8 purple hexagon
9 purple triangle
10 purple hexagon