Grade 11 Math AA HL Tutorial 2 (Term 2) Submission Date: December 21, 2020

TOPIC: Application of Sequences and series

Note: Use of GDC is permitted

1. Ryan is a cartoonist. His comic strip has just been brought by a newspaper, so he sends them the 28
comic strips he has drawn so far. Each week after the first he mails 3 more comic strips to the
newspaper.
(a) Find the total number of comic strips sent after 3 and 4th week.
(b) Show that the total number of comic strips sent after n weeks, forms and arithmetic sequence.
(c) Find the total number of comic strips sent after 15 weeks.
(d) When does Ryan send his 120th comic strip?

2. $8000 is borrowed over a 2 year period at a rate of 12% p.a. Quarterly repayments are made and the
interest is adjusted each quarter, which means that at the end of each quarter, interest is charged on the
previous balance and then the balance is reduced by the amount paid.
At the end of the 1st quarter the amount owned is given by
A1 = $8000 x 1.03 – M, where M is the amount of each repayment.
At the end of second quarter, the amount owned is given by
A2 = A1 x 1.03 – M
= ($8000 x 1.03 – M) x 1.03 – M
= $8000 x (1.03)2 – 1.03R – M
= $8000 x (1.03)2 – M(1.03 + 1)
(a) Find a similar expression for the amount owned at the end of A3, A4 and A5.
(b) Write down an expression for the amount owned at the end of 8th quarter, A8.
(c) Given that A8 = 0 for the loan to be fully repaid, show that each repayment
PR n ( R  1)
M dollars.
( R n  1)
3. (a) Kevin borrowed $7500 to be paid back at 12.5 % p.a. monthly reducible over a period of 7 years.
What is the amount of each monthly installment and what is the total interest charged on the loan.

(b) A women invest $2000 at the beginning of each month into a superannuation scheme for a period
of 15 years. Interest is paid at the rate of 7% p.a. and is compounded monthly.
How much will her investment be worth at the end of 15 years period?

4. An ant walks along a straight path. After travelling 1 meter it stops, turns through an angle of 90‫ﹾ‬
in an anticlockwise direction and sets off in a straight line covering a distance of half a meter.
gain, the ant turns through an angle of 90‫ ﹾ‬in an anticlockwise direction and sets off in a straight line
covering a quarter of a meter. The ant continues in this manner indefinitely.
63
(a) How many turns will the ant have made after covering a distance of m?
32
(b) How far the ant will eventually travelled?
 5. (a) Two players, A and B, alternately throw a fair six–sided dice, with A starting, until one of them
obtains a six. Find the probability that A obtains the first six.

(b) Find the sum of all three-digit natural numbers that are not exactly divisible by 3.

6. A sum of $ 5000 is invested at a compound interest rate of 6.3 % per annum.

(a) Write down an expression for the value of the investment after n full years.
(b) What will be the value of the investment at the end of five years?
(c) The value of the investment will exceed $10 000 after n full years.
(i) Write an inequality to represent this information.
(ii) Calculate the minimum value of n.

7. A small trading company made a profit of $250 000 in the year 2000. The company considered two
different plans, plan A and plan B, for increasing its profits.
Under plan A, the annual profit would increase each year by 5% of its value in the preceding year.
Find, for plan A,
(a) the profit for the year 2008.
(b) the total profit for the 10 years 2000 to 2009 inclusive.

Under plan B, the annual profit would increase each year by a constant amount $D.

(c) Find the value of D for which the total profit for the 10 years 2000 to 2009 inclusive would be
the same for both plans.

8. Two students Ann and Ben play a game. Each time Ann passes GO she receives $15. Each time Ben
passes GO he receives 8% of the amount he already has. Both students start with $100.

(a) How much money will Ann have after she has passed GO 10 times?

(b) How much money will Ben have after he passes GO 10 times?

(c) How many times will the students have to pass GO for Ben to have more money than Ann?