What is the next number in this sequence 7, 16, 8, 27, 9, ?

Question

Possible answers are: 27, 10, 40, 37

Answer 1

7, 16, 8, 27, 9, ?, 10

 

Every other number (shown in orange) is counting up by one from 7: 7, 8, 9, ...

 

The 16 is 2*8, which is the following number.  The 27 is 3*9, which is the following number.  So the sequence seems to be, starting with n=7:

 

n,  2*(n+1),  n+1,  3*(n+2),  n+2,    4(n+3),     n+3, ...

 

7,      16,          8,         27,          9,    4*(7+3)=40,   10, ...

Answer 2

it should be mostly 40