SSLC Previous Year Questions from 2015-2023

Arithmetic sequences

Model - 2023
1. Write the next two terms of the arithmetic sequence 5, 12, 19, …………. (2)
2. The sum of first 5 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 145 (3)
a. Find the third term
b. If the common difference of the sequence is 4 wrte the terms
3. A sequence is written by adding 3 to the multiples of 4 (4)
a. Write the algebraic form of the sequence
b. Find the tenth term of the sequence
c. Is 100 a term of this sequence. Why?
4. The sum of 8th and 19th terms of an arithmetic sequence is 125.
a. What is the sum of 7th and 20th terms
b. If the 6th term is 40 then find the 21st term
c. Find the sum of first 26 terms

Public - 2023
5. 7,13,19, ……. Is an arithmetic sequence (2)
a. What is its common difference
b. Find its 11th term
6. 6th term of an arithmetic sequence is 46. Its common difference is 8 (3)
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a. What ios its 16 term
b. Find its 21st term
7. Sum of first 7 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 140. Sum of first 11 terms of the same
arithmetic sequence is 420.
a. What is the 4th term of this arithmetic sequence
b. Find its 6th term
c. What is the common difference
d. Find the first term of this sequence
8.
a. Find the sum of first 20 natural numbers.
b. Write the algebraic expression of the arithmetic sequence 5, 9, 13, ……..
c. Find the sum of first 20 terms of the arithmetic sequence 5, 9, 13, ………

Model - 2022
9. Write the first three terms of the arithmetic sequence with first term 6 and common difference 4
(1)
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10. The sum of first seven terms of an arithmetic sequence is 84 find its 4 term (2)
11. The expression for the sum of first ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic sequence is . Find the first
term and common difference of the sequence. (2)

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12.
a. Find (6)
b. How many consecutive natural numbers starting from 1 should be added to get 300
13.
a. Consider the arithmetic sequence 4, 7, 10, ……. What is the algebraic expression for this
sequence.
b. Write the 20th term of this sequence. What is the smallest three digit number which is a term
of this sequence?
c. Find the sum of first 20 terms of this sequence. What is the difference between the sum of
first 20 terms of this sequence and sum of first 20 terms of the arithmetic sequence with
algebraic form (8)

Public - 2022
14. What is the common difference of the arithmetic sequence 3, 7, 11, …….. (1)
15. 5, 8, 11, …… is an arithmetic sequence.
a. What is 20th term
b. What is the algebraic expression for this sequence.
16. The algebraic expression for the sum of n terms of an arithmetic sequence is
a. Find the first term of this arithmetic sequence
b. Find sum of first 10 terms of this arithmetic sequence, (2)
17. 6, 10, 14, ……… is an arithmetic sequence.
a. Find the sum of the first 15 terms of this arithmetic sequence (4)
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b. What is the difference between the first term and 16 term (2)
c. Find the difference between the sum of first 15 terms and sum of next 15 terms

Model - 2021
18. What the common difference of the arithmetic sequence 4, 10, 16, ….?
19. Algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is .
a. What is its first term?
b. Find its 10th term.
20. The 5th term of an arithmetic sequence is 20 and the 8th term is 32
a. What is the common difference of this sequence?
b. Find its 11th term.
21. The 10th term of an arithmetic sequence is 20 and its 20th term is 10.
a. What is its common difference
b. What is its 30th term
c. Which is the first negative term of this sequence?
22. 1, 3, 5, …… is an arithmetic sequence .
a. What is its 20th term.
b. Find the sum of first 20 terms of this sequence.
c. What is the sum of first 20 terms of the arithmetic sequence 6, 8, 10, ………

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23. Look at the following number pattern
1
234
56789
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- - -- - - - - - - - - - -
a. Write the next line of this pattern.
b. Write the sequence of last numbers in each line.
c. What will be the last number in the 9th line
d. Write the first and last numbers of the 10th line
24. The sum of first 31 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 620
a. What is its 16th term
b. What is the sum of 15th and 17th terms
c. Find the sum of first 31st terms

Public - 2021
25. Arithmetic sequence with common difference 2 is.
[7, 10, 13, ………, 7, 5, 3, ……….., 7, 9, 11, ………., 2, 5, 8, ……..]
26. Write the first term and common difference of the arithmetic sequence
27.
a. What is the tenth term of the arithmetic sequence
b. What is the common difference?
c. Write the algebraic form of the above sequence?
28.
a. Write the 20th term of an arithmetic sequence 5,10,15,……..
b. Find the sum of first 20 terms of the arithmetic sequence 5,10,15, …………
c. What is the sum of the first 20 terms of the arithmetic sequence 4, 9, 14,……..
29. Fill up the empty cells of the given square such that the numbers in each row, each column and
both diagonal form arithmetic sequence

3 13

30. 1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
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a. Write the fifth line of the pattern
b. How many numbers are there in the tenth line
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 c. How many numbers are there in the first ten lines altogether?
d. What is the first number in the eleventh line?
31.
a. What is the remainder on dividing the terms of an arithmetic sequence 100, 109, 118, …. By
9
b. Write the sequence of three digit numbers, which are multiples of 9.
c. What is the position of 999 in the arithmetic sequence of three digit numbers which are
multiples of 9?

Model - 2020
32. The second term of an arithmetic sequence is 8 and common difference is 3
a. What is the sequence?
b. What is the 12th term of the sequence?
33. The 5th term of an arithmetic sequence is 38 and 8th term is 62.
a. What is the common difference of the sequence?
b. Will the difference between any two terms of this sequence be 100? Why?
34. The sum of first ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic sequence is
a. What is the first term?
b. Find the common difference.
c. What is the sum of first 20 terms of this sequence?
d. Prove that the sum of continuous terms starting from the first of the sequence 3, 5, 7, …..
added to 1 gives a perfect square.
35. The sum of first and 21st terms of an arithmetic sequence is 140
a. What is the 11th term?
b. Write the sequence if the first term is 10.
c. Calculate the sum of first 11 terms of this sequence
d. Find the sum of first 11 terms of the sequence 20, 25, 30, ………

Public-2020
36.
a. Write the 6th term of the arithmetic sequence 1, 25, 49, 73, 97, …….
b. How many perfect square terms are there in the arithmetic sequence 97, 73, 49, ……
37.
a. Write the first term and the common difference of the arithmetic sequence whose algebraic
expression is
b. First term of an arithmetic sequence is 8 and the common difference is 3, write its algebraic
form
38.
a. What is the common difference of the arithmetic sequence
b. If an even number, which is the next even number.
c. Prove that the product of two consecutive even numbers added to 1 gives a perfect square.
39.
a. What is the sum of the first 5 terms of the arithmetic sequence 1, 3, 5, 7, …….

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 b. What is the sum of first ‘n’ terms of the arithmetic sequence 1, 3, 5, 7, …
c. Find the sum first ‘n’ terms of the arithmetic sequence
d. What is the sum of first 2020 terms of the arithmetic sequence ?
40. Sum of first 4 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 72. Sum of the first 9 terms is also 72.
a. What is the 5th term of the sequence?
b. Find the sum of the first fivr terms.
c. Write the sequence

Model 2019
41. Consider the arithmetic sequence 13, 23, 33, ……..
a. What is its common difference?
b. What is the first three digit term of this sequence?
42. The algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is .
a. What is its first term?
b. What is the difference of its 10th and 20th terms?
c. Can the difference of any two terms of this sequence be 368? Justify?
43.
a. Write the sequence of odd numbers greater than 1.
b. What is the algebraic form of this sequence?
c. What is the algebraic form of the arithmetic sequence
d. Prove that this sequence does not contain any natural number.
44. The sum of first 9 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 45 and the sum of first 18 terms is 171
a. What is the sum of its 10th to 18th terms.
b. What is its 5th term
c. Find its 14th term.
d. Find the sum of 5th to 14th terms

Public - 2019
45.
a. Write the first integer term of the arithmetic sequence
b. What is the sum of first 7 terms of this sequence?
46.
a. What is the remainder on dividing the terms of an arithmetic sequence 100, 107, 114, ….. by
7
b. Write the sequence of all three digit numbers which leave remainder 3 on division by 7?
What is the last term of this sequence?
47. Find the following sums
a.
b.
c.
d.
48. If the terms of the arithmetic sequence are represented by x1, x2, x3 …. Then
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 a.
b.
c. Find the sum of first 9 terms
d. What is the sum of first 300 terms?

Model - 2018
49. The 25th term of an arithmetic sequence is 140 and 27th term is 166. What is its common
difference? What is its 35th term?
50.
a. Find the least and highest three digit number which leave a remainder 1 on division by 9.
b. How many three digit numbers are there which leave a remainder one on division by 9
c. Find the sum of all such numbers.
51. Sum of the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence is 45. What is the third term? The common
difference of the sequence is 4. Write the first two terms. Write another arithmetic sequence
having the sum of the first five terms is 45.

Public - 2018
52. The algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is
a. What is the first term of the sequence
b. What will be the remainder if the terms od the sequence are divided by 5
53. There are 20 terms in arithmetic sequence sum of first and last terms is 88.
a. What is the sum of 2nd and 19th terms?
b. If the 10th term is 42, what is the 11th term?
c. What is the common difference of the sequence?
d. What is the first term?
54. Consider the numbers between 100 and 300 which leave remainder 2 on division by 3
a. Which is the first number in this sequence?
b. What is the last number in this sequence?
c. How many such numbers are there in this sequence?
d. Find the sum of all numbers in the sequence.

Model - 2017
55. See these figures made with matchsticks

fig, 1 fig, 2 fig, 3

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 a. How many sticks are needed for the next figure?
b. If we continue this what is the relation between the numbers 1, 2, 3, . . . . and the number
of matchsticks used in fig. 1, fig. 2, fig.3, and so on
c. If we write the number of matchsticks in order what is the algebraic expression to find the
nth term of this sequence.
56. Consider the arithmetic sequence 12, 23, 34, . . . .
a. What is the 10th term of this sequence?
b. Is 1111 a term of this sequence? Why?
57. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 6 and the sum of first 6 terms is 66.
a. What is its 6th term?
b. What is the common difference of the sequence?
c. What are the first 6 terms of this sequence?

Public - 2017
58. Consider the arithmetic sequence 135, 141, 147, . . . . can the sum of any 25 consecutive terms
of the sequence be 2016? Justify your answer.
59.
a. Find the sum of the natural numbers from 1 to 15
b. The sum of 15 terms of an arithmetic sequence with common difference 6 is 780. Write the
algebraic expression of this sequence.
c. Write the algebraic expression for the sum of the sequence.
60.
a. The algebraic expression for an arithmetic sequence is . Find the sum of first
terms of the sequence.
b. If the sum of first terms of an arithmetic sequence is then prove thst

61. Write down the first three terms of the sequence of natural numbers leaving remainder 1 on
division by 5. Check whether 510 is a term
62.

In these figures the sides of the smaller squares are in the arithmetic sequence 2, 5, 8, . . . . and
the sides of larger squares are in the arithmetic sequence 5, 8, 11, . . . .

a. Write down the algebraic form of each sequence.

b. Write down the algebraic form of the sequence of areas of the shaded portion in each figure.

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63.

The first figure above is an equilateral triangle of side 2 cm. the second figure is obtained by
drawing lines passing through the vertices and parallel to the side of the triangle in the first
figure. The third figure is got by drawing lines passing through the vertices and parallel to the
sides of the triangle in the second figure.

a. Write the sequence of perimeters of biggest triangle in each figure.

b. Write the sequence of areas of biggest triangle in each figure.
c. Write algebraic forms of both of the above sequences.
64. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 2 and the common difference is 4.
a. Find the sum of first ten terms of this sequence.
b. Find the sum of the ten terms from the second term to eleventh term.
c. Is it possible that the sum of any consecutive ten terms of the sequence is 500? Why?

Model – 2016
65. The sum of ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic sequence is . Then
a. Find the first term of the sequence.
b. What is the common difference.
c. Write down the sequence.
66. Six times the sum of first 5 terms of an arithmetic sequence is equal to the sum of next 5 terms.
Then
a. Find the first term
b. Write down the sequence
67. The algebraic expression of an arithmetic sequence is
a. What will be the remainder when the terms of the sequence are divided by 7?
b. How many terms are there in between 100 and 200?

Public - 2016
68. Write an arithmetic sequence with common difference 3. Find its 11 th term
69. The sum of first ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic sequence is . Find the first term and the
common difference of this sequence.

Model - 2015
70. Write an arithmetic sequence with common difference 6, using the terms of the arithmetic
sequence 5, 8, 11, . . .? write down the algebraic form of this sequence
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71. Anu and vinu wrote one arithmetic sequence each with the same common difference 7. The 5 th
term of Anu’s sequence is equal to 8th term of Vinu’s sequence. Then
a. What is the difference between the first terms of two sequence
b. What is the difference between the sum of first 20 terms of the two sequence.
72. In an arithmetic sequence the sum of the first nine terms is 279 and the sum of the first twenty
terms is 1280. Then
a. What is the 5th term of this sequence?
b. What is the 16th term of this sequence?
c. Write the sequence.

Public - 2015
73. First term of an arithmetic sequence is 10 and its common difference 3. Write the first three
terms of the sequence. Verify whether 100 is a term of this sequence.
74. Sum of first ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic sequence is . Find the first term and common
difference of this sequence
75. Consider the arithmetic the arithmetic sequence 9, 15, 21, . . . .
a. Write the algebraic form of this sequence
b. Find the twenty fifth term of this sequence
c. Find the sum of terms from twenty fifth to fiftieth of this sequence.
d. Can the sum of some terms of this sequence be 2015? Why?
76. The sum of ‘n’ terms of an arithmetic sequence is . Then
a. Find the first term of the sequence
b. What is the common difference
c. Write down the sequence.
77. Six times the sum of 5 terms of an arithmetic sequence is equal to the sum of next 5 terms, Then
a. Find the first term
b. Write down the sequence
78. The algebraic expression of an arithmetic sequence is
a. What will be the remainder when the terms of the sequence are divided by 7?
b. How many terms are there in between 100 and 200?

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