SEQUENCES

1) At the start of an experiment there is one cell in a dish. The number of cells in the dish
doubles every five minutes.
(a) Complete the table below. [2]
Time in minutes 0 5 10 15 20 25
Number of cells 1 2 4

(b) Write down, as a power of 2, the number of cells in the dish after one hour. [2]
(c) After how many hours would there be 236 cells in the dish? [2]
40
(d) The experiment is stopped when there are 2 cells. Half of these cells are then removed.
Find, as a power of 2, the number of cells remaining in the dish.[2] [4 June 1997 P3]
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2) Look at this table of numbers

Row 1 1
Row 2 3 5
Row 3 7 9 11
Row 4 13 15 17 19
…….. ………………………………..
…….. ………………………………………

(a) (i) Write down the sum of each of the first four rows. [1]
(ii) What is the special name of the numbers that you have written down? [1]
(iii) What is the sum of the numbers in the hundredth row? [2]
(b) (i) Write down the sum of all the numbers in the first two rows,
in the first three rows,
in the first four rows. [2]
(ii) What is the special name of the numbers that you have written down? [1]
(iii) What is the sum of all the numbers in the firs ten rows? [2]
(c) What is the last number in the fifteenth row? [3] [6 Nov 1998 P4]
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3) (a) Write down the next two terms in each of the given sequences.
(i) 5, 9, 13, 17, …………. [2]
(ii) 32, 8, 2, 0.5, ………….. [2]
(iii) 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, …………. [2]
(b) The nth term of a sequence is given by n2 – 3.
(i) Find the 40 th term. [1]
(ii) Work out which term is equal to 222. [2]
1 2 3 4 5
(c) Consider the sequence , , , , , ………..
3 4 5 6 7
(i) Write down the next term. [1]
(ii) Write down the 15th term. [1]
9
(iii) Work out which term in the sequence is equal to [1]
10
(iv) Write down the nth term [1] [5 Nov 1999 P3]
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4) The table shows the values of 7p + 5q for different values of p and q.
For example, if p = 3 and q = 2, then 7p + 5q = 7x3 + 5x2 = 31.
This is ringed in the table.

p\q 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30
1 7 12 17 22 27
2 14 19 24 34
3 21 26 31 36
4 28 33 38

(a) Write the two missing values in the table [2]

(b) Most of the numbers between 10 and 30 appear in the table
List the missing numbers. [2]
(c) Describe the pattern of numbers that you can see in any line going diagonally down the
page
(i) from right to left ( ) [1]
(ii) from left to right ( ) [1]
(d) If negative numbers are included as values for ‘p’ and ‘q’, 7p + 5q can equal any whole
numbers. For example, 8 is not in the table but
7p + 5q = 8 when p = --1 and q = 3
(i) Write down working to show that this last statement is correct [1]
(ii) Find values of ‘p’ and ‘q’ for which 7p + 5q can equal any three of the numbers in
your list in part (b) [6] [9 June 1999 P3]
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5) (a)
6 14 10 9
7 15 11
13 12 8

The numbers 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 have been placed in three rows and five
columns in the grid above. There are five empty spaces. Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,4 and 5
one in each of the empty spaces, so that
Each column has the same sum, and
the sum of each row is 40. [3] [M/J 2001 P3]
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6) What is the missing number in each of these sequences?
(a) 100, 121, 142, ………, 184, 205. [1]
(b) 46.2, 43.5, 40.8, 38.1, ………,32.7. [1] [M/J 2001 P1]
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7) (a) Write down the next two terms in the sequence
7, 10, 15, 22, …………… [2]
(b) Write down the next term and the 50th term in the sequence

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 2 3 4 5
, , , , …………….. [3]
5 7 9 11
(c) Write down the next two terms and find an expression for the nth term in the sequence
17, 13, 9, 5, ……………… [4] [O/N 2001 P4]
8) (a) The table below shows a pattern of numbers.
Fill in the two empty boxes. [2]
1 2 3 4 5 n
3 5 9 2n + 1

(b) The new table shows another pattern of numbers.

Fill in the two empty boxes. [2]

1 2 3 4 5 n
5 8 11 14
(c) By looking at the patterns, fill in the eight empty boxes in the table below. [5]

1 2 3 4 5 6 N
1 4 9 16 n2
0 3 8 15
4 9 16 25

[M/J 2002 P3]

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9) Look at this arrangement of numbers. It is known as Pascal’s Triangle

Line Sum of numbers

1 1 1 2

2 1 2 1 4

3 1 3 3 1 8

4 1 4 6 4 1 16

5 1 5 10 10 5 1 32

6 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

7 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

(a) Complete lines 6 and 7 above. [5]

(b) (i) What is the sum of the numbers on the 9th line? [2]

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 (ii) What is the sum of the numbers on the nth line? [2]
(c) The 12th line is given below. Fill in the blanks in the 11th line. [2]

11 1 11 55 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

12 1 12 66 220 495 792 924 792 495 220 66 12 1

[O/N 2003 P3]

10) (a) A pattern of numbers is shown below.

row

1 1

2 2 3 4

3 5 6 7 8 9

4 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

5 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

6 26 ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

(i) On the diagram complete row 6 [1]

(ii) The last numbers in each row form a sequence.
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, …………
(a) What is the special name given to these numbers? [1]
(b) Write down the last number in the 10th row. [1]
(c) Write down an expression for the last number in the nth row [1]
(iii)The numbers in the middle column of the pattern form a sequence.
1, 3, 7, 13, 21, 31
(a) Write down the next number in this sequence. [1]
(b) The expression for the nth number in this sequence is n2 – n + 1.
Work out the 30th number. [2]
(b) Another pattern of numbers is shown below.

row

1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

3 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

4 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

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 (i) What is the last number in the 10th row? [1]
(ii) Find an expression for the last number in the nth row. [1]
(iii) What is the first number in the 10th row? [1]
(iv) Find an expression for the first number in the nth row. [1] [O/ N 2004 P3]
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11) 8, 15, 22, 29, 36, ………..
A sequence of numbers is shown above.
(a) Find the 10th term of the sequence. [1]
(b) Find the nth term of the sequence. [1]
(c) Which term of the sequence is equal to 260? [1] [O/N 2004 P2]

12) (a) Write down the 10th term and the nth term of the following sequences.
(i) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ……………. [1]
(ii) 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, ………….. [1]
(iii) 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, …………. [3]
(b) Consider the sequence
1(8 – 7 ), 2(10 – 8 ), 3(12 – 9 ), 4(14 – 10),……………...
(i) Write down the next term and the 10th term of this sequence in the form a(b – c )
where a, b and c are integers. [3]
(ii) Write down the nth term in the form a(b – c ) and then simplify your answer. [2]
[O/N 2002 P4]
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13) The first five terms of a sequence are 4, 9, 16, 25, 36,………
Find (a) the 10th term. [1]
(b) the nth term [1] [O/N 2003 P2]
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