Assignment

Grade: X
Subject: Mathematics
Chapter: 05
Topic: Arithmetic Progression

1 Mark Questions
Q1. If 17th term of an AP exceeds its 10th term by 7. Find the common difference.
Q2. If the common difference of an A.P. is 3, then what is a15 ⎼ a9?
Q3. In an AP, if the common difference (d) = –4, and the seventh term is 4, then find the first term.
Q4. What is the common difference of an A.P. in which a21 – a7 = 84?
Q5. For what values of k will, k + 9, 2k – 1 and 2k + 7 are the consecutive terms of an A.P?
1 1−p 1−2 p
Q6. Find the common difference of the A.P. , , … ….
p p p
Q7. If the nth term of an A.P is (2n+1), then find the sum of its first three terms.
Q8. If the common difference of an A.P. is 3, the find a20 – a15.
Q9. The sum of the first p terms of an A.P. is ap2 + bp, find its common difference.
Q10. The first term of an A.P. is p and its common difference is q. Find its 10th term.
Q11. Find the sum of first 25 terms of an A.P. whose nth term is 1 - 4n.
Q12. Find the sum of first ten multiples of 6.
Q13. If in an A.P., a = 15, d = – 3 and an = 0, then find the value of n.

2 Marks Questions
Q14. How many multiples of 4 lie between 10 and 250?
Q15. Check whether –150 is a term of the AP: 11,8,5,2...
Q16. Which term of the AP: 3, 8, 13, 18 ... is 78?
Q17. Find the 20th term from the end of the AP 3, 8, 13……..253.
Q18. Which term of the A.P. 3, 15, 27, 39…… will be 120 more than its 21st term?
Q19. Find the sum of first 8 multiples of 3.
Q20. How many two digit natural numbers are divisible by 3?
Q21. If Sn, the sum of first n terms of an A.P. is given by Sn = 3n2 – 4n, find the nth term.
Q22. The 4th term of an A.P. is zero. Prove that the 25th term of the A.P. is three times its 11th term.
Q23. In an AP, if S5 + S7 = 167 and S10 = 235, then find the A.P, where Sn denotes the sum of its first n terms.
Q24. How many three digit natural numbers are divisible by 5?
Q25. Find how many two digit numbers are divisible by 6?
Q26. In an A.P., the first term is 2, the last term is 29 and the sum of the terms is 155. Find the common
difference of the A.P.
4
Q27. If , a, 2 are three consecutive terms of an A.P., then find the value of a.
5
Q28. Which term of the A.P. 3, 15, 27, 39....... will be 132 more than its 54th term ?
Q29. How many multiples of 4 lie between 10 and 205?
Q30. Determine the A.P. whose third term is 16 and 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.
Q31. If the 17th term of an A.P. exceeds its 10th term by 7, find the common difference.

3 Marks Questions
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3 n 13 n
Q32. In an A.P., the sum of first n terms is + . Find the 25th term.
2 2
Q33. In an A.P., if the 12th term is ⎼ 13 and the sum of its first four terms is 24, find the sum of its first 10
terms.
1 1 3
Q34. Which term of the A.P. 20, 19 , 18 , 17 ……….... is the first negative term?
4 2 4
Q35. The first term of an A.P. is 5, the last term is 45 and the sum of all its terms is 400. Find the number of
terms and the common difference of the A.P.
Q36. The 14th term of an A.P. is twice its 8th term. If its 6th term is -8, then find the sum of its first 20 terms.
1 1
Q37. Find the number of terms of the A.P. 18, 15 , 13……..- 49 and find the sum of all its terms.
2 2
Q38. Find the sum of all multiples of 7 lying between 500 and 900.
Q39. Find an A.P. whose 4th term is 9 and the sum of its 6th and 13th term is 40.
Q40. In an A.P. the sum of first n terms is – 150 and the sum of its next ten terms – 550. Find the A.P.
Q41. The sum of first six terms of an A.P. is 42. The ratio of its 10 th term to its 30th term is 1:3. Calculate the
first and the thirteenth term of the A.P.
Q42. For what value of n are the nth terms of two A.P.’s 63, 65, 67….. and 3, 10, 17…. equal?
Q43. If m times mth term of an A.P. is equal to the n times of its nth term, find the (m+n)th term of the A.P.
Q44. In an A.P., the first term is 8, n th term is 33 and the sum of first n terms is 60. Find n and common
difference.
Q45. In an A.P., the first term is 25, n th term is -17 and the sum of first n terms is 123. Find n and common
difference.

4 Marks Questions
Q46. The sum of the 4th and 8th terms of an AP is 24 and the sum of the 6 th and 10th terms is 44. Find the first
three terms of the AP.
Q47. How many terms of the AP 24, 21, 18………. Must be taken so that their sum is 78? Also find the
eleventh term of this A.P.
Q48. The sum of four consecutive numbers in an AP is 32 and the ratio of the product of the first and the last
term to the product of two middle terms is 7:15. Find the numbers.
Q49. If the sum of first 4 terms of an A.P. is 40 and that of 14 terms is 280. Find the sum of its first n terms.
Q50. If the ratio of the sum of the first n terms of two A.Ps is (7n + 1):(4n + 27), then find the ratio of their
9th terms.
Q51. Find the 60th term of the AP 8, 10, 12, ……. , if it has a total of 60 terms and hence find the sum of its
last 10 terms.
Q52. If the first 7 terms of an A.P. is 49 and that of 17 terms is 289, find the sum of its n terms.
Q53. Find the common difference of an A.P. whose first term is 5 and the sum of its first four terms is half
the sum of the next four terms.
Q54. The first and last terms of an A.P. are 8 and 350 respectively. If its common difference is 9, how many
terms are there and what is their sum?
Q55. Which term of the A.P. -7, -12, -17, -22…..will be -82? Is -100 any term of the A.P.?
Q56. How many terms of the A.P. 45, 39, 33…. must be taken so that their sum is 180?
Q57. Find the value of x, in the A.P: 2 + 6 + 10 + ... + x = 1800.