TWPT Progression – 01

1. The sum of integers from 1 to 100 that are divisible by 8. If the sum of the series 54  51  48  .......... ... is 513,
2 or 5 is then the number of terms are
(a) 3000 (b) 3050 (a) 18 (b) 20
(c) 4050 (d) None of these (c) 17 (d) None of these
(a  c)2 9. The ratio of sum of m and n terms of an A.P. is
2. If a, b, c are in A.P., then 
(b 2  ac) m 2 : n 2 , then the ratio of m th and n th term will be
(a) 1 (b) 2 m 1 n 1
(a) (b)
(c) 3 (d) 4 n 1 m 1
 7 2m  1 2n  1
3. If log 3 2, log 3 (2 x  5 ) and log 3  2 x   are in A.P., (c) (d)
 2 2n  1 2m  1
then x is equal to 10. If the sum of the first 2n terms of 2, 5, 8 ... is equal to
1 1 the sum of the first n terms of 57 , 59 , 61 ... , then n is
(a) 1, (b) 1,
2 3 equal to
3 (a) 10 (b) 12
(c) 1, (d) None of these
2 (c) 11 (d) 13
4. Let Tr be the r th term of an A.P. for r  1, 2, 3,.... . If 3  5  7  .......... to n terms
11. If  7 , then the value of n
1 5  8  11  ......... to 10 terms
for some positive integers m, n we have Tm  and is
n
1 (a) 35 (b) 36
Tn  , then Tmn equals (c) 37 (d) 40
m
12. If the sum of two extreme numbers of an A.P. with four
1 1 1 terms is 8 and product of remaining two middle term
(a) (b) 
mn m n is 15, then greatest number of the series will be
(c) 1 (d) 0 (a) 5 (b) 7
5. If 1, log 9 (3 1  x  2), log 3 (4 . 3 x  1) are in A.P. then x (c) 9 (d) 11
equals 13. If the sides of a right angled traingle are in A.P., then
(a) log 3 4 (b) 1  log 3 4 the sides are proportional to
(a) 1: 2: 3 (b) 2: 3: 4
(c) 1  log 4 3 (d) log 4 3 (c) 3: 4: 5 (d) 4: 5: 6
6. The interior angles of a polygon are in A.P. If the 1 1 1
14. If , , are in A.P., then
smallest angle be 120 o and the common difference be p q r p q r
5o, then the number of sides is
(a) 8 (b) 10 (a) p, , q, r are in A.P. (b) p 2 , q 2 , r 2 are in A.P.
(c) 9 (d) 6 1 1 1
(c) , , are in A.P. (d) None of these
7. If a1 , a2 , a3 ....... an are in A.P., where ai  0 for all i , p q r
then the value of
15. If ( p  q)th term of a G.P. be m and ( p  q )th term be n ,
1 1 1
  ........   then the p th term will be
a1  a2 a 2  a3 an 1  an
n 1 n 1 (a) m / n (b) mn
(a) (b) (c) mn (d) 0
a1  an a1  an
16. If x , y, z are in G.P. and a x  b y  c z , then
n 1 n 1
(c) (d) (a) log a c  log b a (b) log b a  log c b
a1  an a1  an
(c) log c b  log a c (d) None of these

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17. If the p th , q th and r th term of a G.P. are a, b, c
respectively, then a q  r . b r  p . c p  q is equal to 27. If x is added to each of numbers 3, 9, 21 so that the
(a) 0 (b) 1 resulting numbers may be in G.P., then the value of x
(c) abc (d) pqr will be
18. If the third term of a G.P. is 4 then the product of its 1 1
(a) 3 (b) (c) 2 (d)
first 5 terms is 2 3
(a) 4 3 (b) 4 4 (c) 4 5 (d) None 28. If a1 , a2 , a3 ,......... ......, an are in H.P., then
19. Fifth term of a G.P. is 2, then the product of its 9 terms a1 a 2  a 2 a 3  ..........  an 1 an will be equal to
is
(a) a1an (b) na1an
(a) 256 (b) 512
(c) 1024 (d) None of these (c) (n  1)a1an (d) None of these
20. If the sum of three terms of G.P. is 19 and product is 29. If a, b, c, d are in H.P., then ab  bc  cd is equal to
216, then the common ratio of the series is
3 3 (a) 3 ad (b) (a  b )(c  d )
(a)  (b)
2 2 (c) 3 ac (d) None of these
(c) 2 (d) 3 30. In a H.P., pth term is q and the qth term is p. Then pqth
21. The sum of the series 6  66  666  .......... upto n term is
terms is (a) 0 (b) 1
(a) (10 n 1  9 n  10 ) / 81 (c) pq (d) pq ( p  q )
31. If H is the harmonic mean between p and q , then
(b) 2(10 n 1  9 n  10 ) / 27
H H
(c) 2(10 n  9 n  10 ) / 27 the value of  is
p q
(d) None of these
pq
22. The sum of n terms of the following series (a) 2 (b)
p q
1  (1  x )  (1  x  x 2 )  .......... will be
p q
1  xn x (1  x n ) (c) (d) None of these
(a) (b) pq
1x 1x
32. If the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means
n(1  x )  x (1  x n ) between two distinct positive real numbers be A, G
(c) (d) None of these
(1  x ) 2 and H respectively, then the relation between them is
23. If the product of three consecutive terms of G.P. is 216 (a) A  G  H (b) A  G  H
and the sum of product of pair-wise is 156, then the (c) H  G  A (d) G  A  H
numbers will be 33. If a, b, c are in G.P. and x, y are the arithmetic means
(a) 1, 3, 9 (b) 2, 6, 18
a c
(c) 3, 9, 27 (d) 2, 4, 8 between a, b and b, c respectively, then  is
24. If the sum of an infinite G.P. and the sum of square of x y
its terms is 3, then the common ratio of the first series equal to
is (a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 1/2
1 2 3 34. If a , b , c are in A.P., then (b  c) , (c  a)1 and
2 2 2 1
(a) 1 (b) (c) (d)
2 3 2 (a  b )1 will be in
25. Consider an infinite G.P. with first term a and common (a) H.P. (b) G.P.
ratio r, its sum is 4 and the second term is 3/4, then (c) A.P. (d) None of these
7 3 3 1
(a) a  , r  (b) a  , r  1 1 1
4 7 2 2 35. If a, b, c are in A.P., then , , will be in
bc ca ab
3 1 (a) A.P. (b) G.P.
(c) a  2, r  (d) a  3, r 
8 4 (c) H.P. (d) None of these
26. Sum of infinite number of terms in G.P. is 20 and sum 36. If x , 1, z are in A.P. and x , 2, z are in G.P., then
of their square is 100. The common ratio of G.P. is
x , 4 , z will be in
(a) 5 (b) 3/5
(c) 8/5 (d) 1/5 (a) A.P. (b) G.P.
(c) H.P. (d) None of these

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46. If a,b,c are in A.P., then , ,
a b a c
37. If the (m  1)th , (n  1)th and (r  1)th terms of an A.P. are 1
in G.P. and m , n, r are in H.P., then the value of the are in
b c
ratio of the common difference to the first term of the (a) A.P. (b) G.P. (c) H.P. (d) None
A.P. is
2 2 n n 47. If ln (a  c) , In (c  a) , In (a  2b  c) are in A.P., then
(a)  (b) (c)  (d)
n n 2 2
(a) a, b, c are in A.P. (b) a 2 , b 2 , c 2 are in A.P.
38. If the A.M. is twice the G.M. of the numbers a and b ,
then a : b will be (c) a, b, c are in G.P. (d) a, b, c are in H.P
2 3 2 3 48. The sum of infinite terms of the following series
(a) (b) 4 7 10
2 3 2 3 1   2  3  ......... will be
5 5 5
3 2 3 2 3 35 35 35
(c) (d) (a) (b) (c) (d)
3 2 3 2 16 8 4 16
39. x  y  z  15 if 9, x , y , z , a are in A.P.; while 49. If the sum of the n terms of G.P. is S product is P and
1 1 1 5 sum of their inverse is R , than P 2 is equal to
   if 9, x , y , z , a are in H.P., then the value
x y z 3 R S R
n
S 
n

of a will be (a) (b) (c)   (d)  

S R S  R
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 9
50. If A1 , A2 ; G1 , G 2 and H 1 , H 2 be AM ' s, GM ' s and
40. If a, b, c are in A.P. and a 2 , b 2 , c 2 are in H.P., then
(a) a  b  c (b) 2b  3 a  c HM ' s between two quantities, then the value of
G1G2
(c) b 2  (ac / 8 ) (d) None of these is
H1 H 2
41. In the four numbers first three are in G.P. and last
three are in A.P. whose common difference is 6. If the A1  A2 A1  A 2 A  A2 A  A2
first and last numbers are same, then first will be (a) (b) (c) 1 (d) 1
H1  H 2 H1  H 2 H1  H 2 H1  H 2
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 8
a b c
42. If a, b, c are in H.P., then , , are in
b c ca ab
(a) A.P. (b) G.P. (c) H.P. (d) None
43. If the first and (2n  1)th terms of an A.P., G.P. and H.P.
are equal and their n th terms are respectively a, b and
c , then
(a) a  b  c (b) a  c  b
(c) ac  b 2  0 (d) (a) and (c) both
44. If the product of three terms of G.P. is 512. If 8 added
to first and 6 added to second term, so that number
may be in A.P., then the numbers are
(a) 2, 4, 8 (b) 4, 8, 16
(c) 3, 6, 12 (d) None of these
45. If the ratio of H.M. and G.M. between two numbers a
and b is 4 : 5 , then the ratio of the two numbers will
be
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 1 (c) 4 : 1 (d) 1 : 4

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1. (b) 2. (d) 3. (d) 4. (c) 5. (b) 6. (c) 7. (a) 8. (a) 9. (c) 10. (c)
11. (a) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (b) 15. (b) 16. (b) 17. (b) 18. (c) 19. (b) 20. (b)
21. (b) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (d) 26. (b) 27. (a) 28. (c) 29. (a) 30. (b)
31. (a) 32. (a) 33. (c) 34. (c) 35. (a) 36. (c) 37. (a) 38. (b) 39. (a) 40. (a)
41. (d) 42. (c) 43. (d) 44. (b) 45. (c, d) 46. (a) 47. (d) 48. (d) 49. (d) 50. (a)