DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL RAJNAGAR / AGRA

(Under the aegis of the Delhi Public School Society ,East of Kailash, New Delhi)
MATHEMATICS
ARITHMATIC PROGRESSION

Q1. Find the 9th term from the end (toward the first term) of the AP 5, 9, 13, ……, 185,
Q2. If 7 times the 7th term of an AP is equal to 11 times the 11th term, then find its 18th
term.
Q3. If the sum of first p terms of an AP is ap2 + bp, find its common difference.
Q4. How many terms of the AP 18, 16, 14, ……. be taken so that their sum is zero?
Q5. Find how many integers between 200 and 500 are divisible by 8.
Q6. Find the number of natural numbers between 101 and 999 which are divisible by 2
and 5 both.
Q7. Find the 31st term of the AP whose 11th term is 38 and the 16th term is 73.
Q8. Which term of the AP 3, 8, 13, 18, …., is 73.
Q9. An AP consists of 50 terms of which third term is 12 and the last term is 106. Find
the 29th term.
Q10. If the sum of first 7 terms of an AP is 49 and that of 17 terms is 289, find the sum
of first n terms.
Q11. How many three digits natural numbers are divisible by 6?
Q12. The sum of three numbers in A.P is 30. There product is 910, find the numbers.
Q13. Find the sum of all three digits natural numbers which are divisible by 7.
Q14. The sum of n terms of an A.P is 4n-n2 . What is the nth term and 10th term?
Q15. If the first term of an A.P is 3 and the sum of first five terms is equals to one –
fourth of the sun of the next five terms, find the sum of first 20 terms.
Q16. If the mth term of an A.P is 1/n and n th term is 1/m, show that the sum of mn terms
is (mn+1)/2.
Q17. The sum of first 20 terms of an A.P is one third of the sum of next 20 terms, if first
term is 1, then find the sum of 30 terms.
Q18. The houses of a row are numbered consecutively from 1 to 49. Show that there is
a value of x such that the sum of the numbers of the houses preceding the house
numbered x is equals to the sum of the numbers of the houses following it, find the
value of x.
Q19. In an A.P, sum of first 10 terms is -150 and the sum of it’s next 10 terms is -550,
find the A.P.
Q20. If the sum of m terms of an A.P is the same as the sum of it’s n terms, show that
the sum of its (m+n) terms is zero.