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Placement Quantitative Aptitude Formulas Handbook: Arithmetic Progression

This document provides formulas and definitions for various quantitative aptitude concepts useful for placement exams. It includes formulas for arithmetic and geometric progressions, HCF and LCM, percentages, profit and loss, time and work, boats and streams, and simple and compound interest. Key formulas include the nth term and sum of an arithmetic progression, the nth term and sum of a geometric progression, percentage increase/decrease formulas, profit/loss percentage formulas, time and work formulas using rates, upstream/downstream boat speed formulas, and formulas for simple and compound interest calculation.

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Placement Quantitative Aptitude Formulas Handbook: Arithmetic Progression

This document provides formulas and definitions for various quantitative aptitude concepts useful for placement exams. It includes formulas for arithmetic and geometric progressions, HCF and LCM, percentages, profit and loss, time and work, boats and streams, and simple and compound interest. Key formulas include the nth term and sum of an arithmetic progression, the nth term and sum of a geometric progression, percentage increase/decrease formulas, profit/loss percentage formulas, time and work formulas using rates, upstream/downstream boat speed formulas, and formulas for simple and compound interest calculation.

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Arithmetic Progression
Definition: If each term of a series differs from its preceding term by a constant, then such a progression is called arithmetic progression.

e.g: 2,5,8,11
In the above sequence the difference between any two terms in 3. Formulas: Consider an AP : a, (a + d), (a + 2d), (a + 3d),(a + 4d),.... 1) n th term of the above sequence = Tn = a + (n - 1)d 2) Sum to n no of terms Sn = n / 2 (2a + (n - 1)d) 3) Another formula for Sn = n / 2 (first term + last term)

Geometric Progression.
Definition: Any progression or sequence with successive terms having a common ration is called geometric progression.

e.g: 2,4,8,16...
In the above sequence the common ratio is 2 for any two successive terms Formulas Consider a GP - a, ar, ar2.... where a is the first term and r is the common ratio 4) n th term, Tn = arn-1 5) Sum to n terms , Sn = a(1 - rn)/(1-r) 6) In case r lies beween -1 and +1 then Sum of all terms of the series = a/(1 - r)

HCF and LCM


Product of two numbers = Their HCF X Their LCM

Surds and Indices

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Percentages
18) How to express a/b as percentage? Ans: (a/b) x 100 19) How to express a percentage of b?

Ans: (a/100) x b 20) If the price of an item increases by A%, then the reduction in consumption so as not to increase the expenditure is Ans: A / (100 + A) x 100 % 21) If the price of an item decreases by A%, then the increase in consumption so as not to decrease the expenditure is: Ans: A / (100 - A) x 100 %

Profit And Loss


23) Profit = Selling Price - Cost Price 24) Loss = Cost Price - Selling Price 25) Profit Percentage = (Profit / Cost Price) x100 26)Loss Percentage = (Loss / Cost Price) x100

Time And Work


26) N1 x R1 = N2 x R2 = W Here: N = number of working men; R = rate of work done per man ; D = days ;W = total work done.

Boats And Streams


Let b = boat speed, s = stream speed, d = distance and t = time<;p> 27) Smooth water equation b=d/t 28) Upstream equation b + s = d/t 29) Downstream speed. b - s = d/t

Simple and Compound Interest


31) For Interest Compounded Annually Total Amount = P(1+(R/100)) n 32) For Interest Compounded Half Yearly Total Amount = P(1+(R/200)) 2n 33) For Interest Compounded Quarterly Total Amount = P(1+(R/400))4n 33) Simple Interest = (Principal X Rate X Time) / 100

SI = PRT/100

Where P = capital amount, R = annual rate, T = time period in years

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