Each successive term in the sequence 2048, 512, 128, x, y, ... is obtained by multiplying the previous term by a constant. What is the value of x + y?
Each term is the previous term multiplied by 1/4
128 * 1/4 = 32 = x
32 * 1/4 = 8 = y
x + y = 32 + 8 = 40