Answer: What Comes Next? #83

The answer is D: yellow hexagon.

The rule

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

When you run it, Python prints:

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