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The document discusses arithmetic and geometric progressions and provides important formulas and examples of finding terms and sums of arithmetic and geometric progressions. It also contains word problems involving progressions.

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PROGRESSION Algebra

ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION

Important formulae: In an arithmetic progression with first term a and the common
difference d,
 Tn = a + (n – 1)d
n n
 Sn = 2 [2a + (n – 1) d] = 2 × [first term + last term]
= n × Average of the series
a,  a 2  .....a n
 AM = n

1. Which of the following statements are not true regarding an arithmetic


progression?
(a). An AP is defined by two things: the first term (a) and the common
difference (d). If these are known then any term or the sum up to any term can
be found out.
(b). The sum of the kth term from the beginning and the kth term from the end
is constant and equal to twice the average of the series.
(c). The n/2th term is the middle term of the series.
(d). If the sum of the places of two terms adds up to n+1, then they are equal
to twice the average of the series.
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2. Find Tn and Sn for following series.


(a). 1, 4, 7, 10..... till 12th term

(b). -18, -11, - 4, 3, 10..... till 15th term

3. Find the sum up to 11 terms of an AP, if


(a). First term (a) = 7 and common difference (d) = 2

(b). T4 = 24 and T8= 36


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(c). T1 = 4 and T11 = 4

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(d). T2 = and T10 = 49 1
2 2

(e). T3 = 15 and T5 = 19

(f). T6 = 10

(g). S5 = S6
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(h). S5 = 6 and S6 = 5

(a). If there are three terms in AP, the terms are taken as: a – d, a, a + d.
(b). If there are five terms in AP, the terms are taken as:
a – 2d, a – d, a, a + d, a + 2d.
(c). If there are four terms in AP, the terms are taken as:
a – 3d, a – d, a + d, a + 3d.
(d). If we have to insert n arithmetic means between two numbers a and b,
then, b = a + (n+1)d and d = b  a
n  1

4. Sum of 3 terms in AP is 18 and product of extreme terms is 20. Find the terms.

5. Consider 2 sequences,
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, . . . . . 103 and 4, 8, 12, 16, . . . . . 123
Find how many terms are common to both the sequences.
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GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION
Important formulae: In a geometric progression with first term a and the common
ratio r,
 Tn = a.rn-1

a rn  1 (r.Last term - first term)
 Sn = r  1 = (r - 1)
a
S  , where | r ||
 1  r
 GM = n a1 . a2 .....an .
 If n is odd, product of n terms in GP will be equal to (middle term)n
 If n GMs are introduced between two numbers a and b, making a and b the first
and last terms respectively, then b = a.r(n+1)
a
 Three general terms in a GP are taken as r , a, ar.

6. Find Tn and Sn for following series


(a). 2, 6, 18, 54..... till 6th term

(b). 72, 36, 18, 9..... till 8th term


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7. Find the sum of infinite terms


(a). 8, 4, 2, 1 ..............

2 2 2 2
(b). 1
 2
 3
  .....
5 5 5 54

8. In a GP first term is 4. Common ratio is 2. What is the 6th term and sum up to 8
terms?
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9. In a GP, first term is 11 and the last term is 5632. Sum up to last term is 11253.
Find common ratio.

10. In a GP, T5 = 3, what is the product of first nine terms?

11. A tennis ball is initially dropped from a height of 180m. After striking the
ground, it rebounds to 3/5th of the height from which it had fallen. The total
distance travelled by the ball before it comes to rest is:
(a) 540 m (b) 600 m (c) 720 m (d) 900 m
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12. In a GP with even number of terms, ratio of sum of odd terms to sum of total
terms is 1 : 5. Find r.

13. In an infinite GP, every term is 7 times the sum of all terms that follow. If sum
of first and second terms is 9, find the G.P.

14. The ratio of the sum of the first p terms to the sum of the first q terms of an AP
p2
is q 2 . Find the ratio of the 12th term to the 15th term of the AP.
PROGRESSION Algebra

15. The sum of n terms of a progression is 3n2 + 5. Which term of series equals
123?

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