Answer: What Comes Next? #47

The answer is A: yellow triangle.

The rule

The pattern repeats every 3 things: yellow triangle, yellow triangle, teal 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 = ["yellow triangle", "yellow triangle", "teal triangle"]
for position in range(8):
    print(position + 1, pattern[position % len(pattern)])

When you run it, Python prints:

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