#88
A necklace is made by stringing Q no individual beads together in the repeating pattern red bead, green bead, white bead, blue bead, and yellow bead. If the necklace design begins with a red bead and ends with a white bead, then Q could equal Select the correct option
A) 16
B) 28
C) 41
D) 54
E) 65

Rationale: you can just write out the pattern and count : rgwbyrgwbyrgwby . . . but to save time a good test taker will just look for a pattern . min # is 3 , because w is the third one . then every 5 beads another white comes , so it must be 3 + 5 + 5 + 5 . . and so on . . . 3 + 5 = 8 3 + 5 + 5 = 13 3 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 18 3 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 23 so you see it ends in either 8 or 3 . pick an answer that ends in either 8 or 3 . only one answer does , b .
Answer: B