SEQUENCE AND SERIES

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Find the nth term of the following

series
(I) 6, 8, 10, 12 ......
(II) 7, 9 + 3a, 11 + 6a,.....
Find p and q such that 10, 4, p, q, - 4
form an AP.
Insert 5 arithmetic means between -19
and 23.
There are n arithmetic means between 2 and 23 such that the ratio of
first and last is 1 : 4, find the value of
n.
Find the sum of the following series :
5 + 17 + 29 + 41 ..... upto 20 terms.
1 - 3 - 7.... upto n terms
n n 1 n 2

...... upto n terms

n
n
n
The fifth and the ninth term of the AP
are 11 and 7 respectively. Find the
fourteenth term of the series. Also find
the sum of the first sixteenth term of
the sequence.
How many terms are there in the AP :
25, 22, 19, ......, -20
If pth term of an AP is q and and qth
term is p. Show that the mth term is p +
q - m.
If the sum of first m term is n and that
of the firsr n terms is m then show that
the sum of first (m + n) terms is :
-(m + n).
There are p arithemetic series each of
which consist of n terms. Their first
terms are 1,2,3,4.....p and the common difference are 1, 3, 5, .... 2p - 1
respectively. Find the sum of all the
series together.
If the sum of the three consecutive
terms of an AP is 2 and the sum of the
squres of the terms is 224, find the
terms.
If the sum of the three consecutive
terms of an AP is 36 and their product
is 1140, find the terms.
If the 12th term of an AP is -14 and

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the sum of the first four terms is 24,

then find the sum of the first ten terms
of the series.
An AP consist of the 12 terms whose
sum is 354. The ratio of the sum of the
even terms to that of the sum of the
odd terms is 32 : 27, find the common
difference of the progression.
The sum upto nth terms of the three
APs are give as :
(A) 2n2 - n,
(B) 3n2 + 4n
2
(C) 2n - 1
Find the first terms and the common
difference.
If a,b, and c are in AP then show that
the following terms are also in AP
(I) b + c, c + a, a + b(B) a2 - (b + c)2, b2
- (c + a)2,
c2 - (a + b)2,
(III)

11 1 11 1 1 1 1
, ,
ab c bc a ca b

(D)

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b c
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a b

If a, b, c, d are in AP then show that :

(I) a2 +3c2 = d2 + 3b2.
(B) 3a2 - 4b2 + c2 = 2a(a - c)
(III) 8b3 - a3 - c3 = 6abc
Prove a that constant term is added,
subtracted or multiplied to each term
term of the arithmetic progession, the
resulting sequence is also and AP.
Prove that the sum of an odd number
of terms in an AP is equal to the
middle terms multiplied by the number
of terms.
Find the following sum :
(I) 1.2 + 2.3 + 3.4 +...... +n(n+1)
(II) 2.3.1 + 3.4.4 + 4.5.7 + ...... nth
terms
(III) 1.2.4 + 2.3.7 + 3.4.10 + ...... nth
terms
(IV) 12 + (12 + 22) + (12 + 22 + 32) ....

upto n terms

13 13 23 13 23 33

..... upto n
1 1 3
1 3 5
terms.
The sum of the first 10 terms of an AP
is 30 and that of the next 10 terms is 170. Find the sum of the next 10
terms.
If the sum of the first n, 2n and 3n
terms of an AP are respectively S1, S2
and S3 then prove that
(A) S3 = 3(S2 - S1) (B) S1 + S3 = 2S2.
The interior angles of a polygon are in
AP. The smallest angle is 120, and
the common difference is 5. Find
number of sides in the polygon.
Find the sum of the following series :
(A) 128 + 64 + 32 +... upto 10 terms
(B) 6 + 12 + 24 ... upto 9 terms
(C) (x + a) + (x2 + 2a) + ..... (x9 + 9a).
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(D) 2 5 .....
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1 1 1
(II) 1 .....
2 4 8

1
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ab bc b

a b c
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a b c

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a bc
abc

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ab bc ca

a b bc c a

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(D)
2

b c c a d b

a d .

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a
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ac c 2 b 2 bd d 2 ab bc cd

If a, b, c, d are in GP then prove that

the following expressions are also in
GP

3 3
3069
quence is 3, , ,..... is
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2 4
512
Find the sum upto infinity of the following series
1 1 1 1
(I) ....
2 4 8 16

1 1 1
... upto 10 terms.
(E)
16 8 4
(F) .3 + 0.03 + 0.003 + 0.0003 +....
upto n terms
(G) 1 + (2 + 22) + (23 + 24 + 25) + ....
upto n terms.
a, b, c, d are in GP then show that :

(A)

(A) a + b, b + c, c + d
(B) (a + b)2, (b + c)2, (c + d)2.
(C) a2 + b2 + c2, ab + bc + cd,
b2 + c2 + d2
If the pth, qth and rth term of the GP are
x, y and z respectively then show that
xq - ryr- pzp - q =1
If x, y, z are in GP and p, q, r are in AP
then show that xq - ryr- pzp - q =1
Find three positive unequal integer a,
b, c such that 2, a, b, 8 forms an AP
and a,b, c forms a GP.
Show that the AM and GM of the roots
of the equation x2 - 8x + 16 =0 are
same.
Prove that the reciprocals of the terms
of a GP are also in GP.
Which term of the geometric se-

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3
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(III) 3 2 1 ....
8
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(IV) 1 + 2x + 3x2 + 4x3 + ..... , and x2
< 1.
Find the sum of the series 5+ 55 +555
+ 5555 + 55555 + .....
The sum of the three consecutive
terms of the AP is 18. When 2, 4, 11
are added to the terms respectively
the results are in GP. Find the terms.
If the nth term of an AP is given 4 - 3n,
then find the sum of n terms of the
series.
If the ratio of sum of first m and n
terms of an AP is m2 : n2 them find the
ratio of the mth and nth term of the AP.
If the ratio of sum of n terms of two

APs is given by

5n 4
. Find the ratio
3n 7

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of the nth term of the two APs.

The difference between the two numbers is 48. The difference between the
AM and GM of the two numbers is 18.
Find the numbers.
Can three consecutive terms of constitute an AP and GP simulataneously.
The sum of four consecutive terms of
a GP is 60 and the AM of the first and
last is 18. Find the terms of the series.

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