Arithmetic Series The Notes

ARITHMETIC SERIES
1. For the following series determine 6. A wooden staircase has a total of
the 5th term: 50 steps. The bottom step requires
4, 11, 18… 108 bricks. Each successive step
requires two less bricks than the
A) 20 prior step. How many bricks are
B) 28 required to build the staircase?
C) 32
D) 65 A) 2950
B) 7850
2. For the following series determine C) 5000
the sum till the 13th term: D) None of the above
9, 13, 17…
7. The sum of the interior angle of a
A) 100 triangle is 180°, of a quadrilateral is
B) 190 360° and of a pentagon is 540°.
C) 590 Assuming this pattern continues,
D) 429 find the sum of the interior angles
of a dodecagon (12 sides)
3. Find the sum of all the integers
between 100 and 300 which are A) 1400
multiple of 7. B) 1500
C) 1800
A) 5589 D) 1200
B) 5586
C) 5590 8. Terry pays $350 for his first cell
D) 5482 phone and $270 for his 5th cell
phone. Of the cost of the cell phone
4. An A.P series has the first term 4 is an arithmetic sequence, how
and the common difference of 3. If much should he except to pay of
the sum of all the integers is 375. his 15th cell phone?
How many terms are there?
A) 100
A) 5 B) 90
B) 65 C) 80
C) 8 D) 70
D) 15

5. Find the sum of all the integers

between 50 and 150 which are
multiples of 4.
A) 1000
B) 1250
C) 2550
D) 2500

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9. A brick staircase has a total of 40 13. The sum of third and ninth term of
steps. The bottom step requires 88 the A.P is 8. Find the sum of the
bricks. Each successive step first 11 terms of the progression?
requires two less bricks then the
previous step. How many bricks A) 44
are required for the top step? B) 22
C) 19
A) 2 D) None of above
B) 4
C) 6 14. The sum of the three numbers in
D) 8 A.P is 21 and the product of the
first and third number of the
10. The 23rd term of arithmetic sequence is 45. What are the three
sequence where 𝑇3 = 8 and 𝑇4 = 13 numbers?
is,
A) 104 A) 5, 7, and 9
B) 106 B) 9, 7, and 5
C) 108 C) 3, 7, and 11
D) 110 D) Both (1) and (2)

11. Cole gets better and better at a 15. Sum of first 25 terms in AP is 525,
video game every time he plays. sum of the next 25 terms is 725,
He scores 20 points in the first what is the common difference?
game, 25, in the second, and 30 in
the third and so on. How many A) 8/25
points will he score the 15th times B) 4/25
he plays? C) 6/25
D) 1/5
A) 80
B) 90 16. Find the sum of all the numbers
C) 100 divisible by 6 in between 100 to
D) 105 400.

12. Tom just bought a cactus plant for A) 12550

his office. The cactus is currently B) 12450
3inches tall and will grow 2 inches C) 11450
every month. How tall will the D) 11550
cactus be after 14 months?
17. In an AP, the first term is 6 and the
A) 26 common difference is -4/3. Find the
B) 27 4th term
C) 28
D) 29 A) 2/3
B) 2
C) -2/3
D) 14/3

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18. Which term of the sequence 23. The last term of a sequence given
-3, 3, 9, 15….is 81: by 𝑇𝑛 = n² - 14n is 51. The no. of
terms in the sequence are
A) 13
B) 12 A) 15
C) 14 B) 16
D) 15 C) 17
E) 16 D) 18
E) None of above
19. How many numbers are there
between 256 and 789 that are 𝑛−1 𝑛−2
24. The sum of the series + +
𝑛 𝑛
divisible by 7? 𝑛−3
+ ⋯ to n terms is
𝑛
𝑛
A) 58 A)
2
B) 59 𝑛+1
B)
C) 60 2
𝑛−1
D) 76 C) 2
E) 85 𝑛²+1
D)
2
𝑛²−1
20. An AP consist of 25 terms of which E) 2
the 4th term is 4 and 22nd term is 5.
The 19th term will be 25. The no. of term of the series
10+8+6+…. Will make the sum 28
A) 29/6 is
B) 25/6
C) 31/6 A) 4
5
D) 4 B) 5
6
C) 6
2 D) 7
21. The 𝑇𝑛 of the sequence 1/3, 13,
E) A&D
3,…
26. The sum of the first n terms of two
A) 1/3 (4n – 3)
AP’s is in the ratio 3n + 31: 5n – 3.
B) 1/3 (4n – 2)
The ratio of their 9th term is
C) 1/3(4n – 5)
D) (4n – 3)
A) 1:1
B) 1:2
22. General term of a sequence is
C) 2:1
given by 𝑇𝑛 = 5n – 2, if the last term
D) 1:3
is 148, the no of terms present in
E) 3:1
the sequence are 1+3+5+⋯𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠
27. 2+4+6+⋯𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠 = 0.95, the value of n
A) 29 is
B) 39 A) 18
C) 30 B) 19
D) 32 C) 20
D) 21
E) None of these

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28. How many terms of the series -8, - 33. For some real number t, the first
6, -4,… make the sum 90? three term of an arithmetic
sequence are 3t – 4, 2t + 3 and 6t
A) 14 – 2. What is the numerical value of
B) 15 the fourth term?
C) 16
D) 17 A) 7.8
E) None of these B) 12.4
C) 17.0
29. The least no. terms of the AP, D) None of these
1+3+5+… that are required to
make a sum exceeding 4000 is 34. The sum of sixth and fourteen term
of an arithmetic sequence is 40.
A) 60 What is the sum of first 19th terms
B) 61 of the arithmetic progression?
C) 62
D) 63 A) 360
E) 64 B) 380
C) 400
30. In an AP, the fifth term is 22 and D) 420
the tenth term is 47. The sixteenth
term will be 35. Eleventh term of an arithmetic
progression is 243 and the twenty
A) 64 ninth is 27. The thirty first term of
B) 69 the progression is?
C) 73
D) 77 A) 3
E) 81 B) -12
C) 363
31. The first term in a sequence is 5 D) 0
and each term after the first is 6
more than the immediately 36. In triangular park tree are planted
preceding them. What is the value in rows such that the first row has 4
of 104th term? trees and every successive row
has 2 more trees. If there are 15
A) 607 rows of trees the total numbers of
B) 613 trees in the park are:
C) 618
D) 619 A) 300
B) 32
32. Which term of the AP 2, 8, 14, C) 270
210…will be 210 more than its 60th D) None of these
term?

A) 93
B) 94
C) 95
D) 96

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37. The sum of third and seventh term

of arithmetic progression is 300.
What is the value of the 15th term of
an arithmetic progression?

A) 150
B) 200
C) 250
D) 300

38. What is the sum of the first 25

terms of an arithmetic sequence if
the sum of the 18th and 28th term is
36?

A) 3240
B) 1620
C) 810
D) 405

39. The ratio of the fifth term to the

twelfth term of a sequence in an
arithmetic progression is 6/13. If
each term of this sequence is
positive, and the product of the first
term and the third term is 32, find
the sum of the first 100 terms of
this sequence.

A) 10200
B) 10300
C) 1040
D) None of these

40. Eleventh term in an arithmetic

progression is 22 and the twenty
ninth is 58. The thirty first term of
the progression is?

A) 58
B) 60
C) 62
D) 64

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