Question

you set up a bulletin board site on the internet. For the first six days , the number of hits or people who visit your site are given below. Make a conjecture on how many hits your site will get on day 7 and 8

Answer 1

About that many.

Answer 2

? I am not sure that I understand

Answer 3

I did not give you the numbers, sorry

Day 1: 10 hits
Day 2: 20 hits
Day 3: 40 hits
Day 4: 79 hits
Day 5: 161 hits
Day 6: 320 hits

Answer 4

That makes two of us. There are no hits given below.

Answer 5

What pattern do you see with those hits?

Answer 6

I don't see a consistent pattern,

here is what I have
double
double
double minus 1
double plus 3
double minus 2

Answer 7

Yes! How many hits do you think the next two days will have?

Answer 8

so I guess start the pattern over and double again so 640 and 1280?

Answer 9

Right.