CAT workshop 26- Sequence & Series

Question: Find the sum of all even numbers from 10 to 200 (inclusive), excluding those, which are multiples of 6.

1) 6600 2) 6720 3) 6890 4) 10080

Question: Susan had arranged to pay off her debt of $3,600 to CASA Bank in 40 monthly installments in the form of
an A.P. When 30 of the installments had been repaid, she died leaving one third of the debt unpaid. What was the
value of the first installment?

A. $45 B. $47 C. $49 D. $51

A. x < 3 B. x>1/3 C. x<1/3 D. x>3

Question: In a GP, the third term is 10 more than the second term and the second term is 6 more than the first term.
What is the fifth term?

Question: If the sum of the first 8 terms of an AP is exactly half of the sum of the next 8 terms, what is the ratio of
the 16th term to the 8th term of the AP?

(a) 2:1 (b) 5:3 (c) 21:17 (d) 39:23

Question: Find the sum: 3x2 + 5x3 + 7x4 + 9x5 + .............

Question: Sweety purchased a box of chocolates. She ate 1 chocolate on the first day, 3 on the second day, 6 on the
third day, 10 on the fourth day and so on. Finally, she finished all the chocolates in exactly 20 days. How many
chocolates were there in the box?

Question: The sum of 3rd and 15th terms of an arithmetic progression is equal to the sum of 6th, 11th and 13th
terms of the same progression. Which term of the given progression should necessarily be equal to zero?

Question: Find the 5th term of an HP, if the sum of the reciprocals of the first nine terms of the harmonic
progression is 90.

A. 1/7 B. 1/10 C. 1/12 D. 1/15

Question: The sum of 5 numbers in AP is 75 and the product of the greatest and the least of them is 161. What is the
greatest number?

Question: The sum of an infinite GP is 14. On cubing each term of this GP, the sum of the newly obtained series
equals 392. The first term and the common ratio of the original GP, respectively, are

A. 14 and 1/3 B. 7 and 1/3 C. 7 and 1/2 D. 7 and 1/4

Question: Let a1, a2, a3... be in an A.P with a common difference, which is not a multiple of 3. The maximum number
of consecutive terms which are in AP and are also prime numbers, is

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

Question: A radio set manufacturer produced 600 units in the third year and 700 units in the seventh year. Assuming
that the production uniformly increases by a fixed number every year, find (i) the production in the first year (ii) the
production in the 10th year and (iii) the total production in 7 years.

A. 550, 775, 4375 B. 600, 875, 4475 C. 550, 775, 700 D. 700, 875, 4375

Question: Three numbers, whose sum is 15, are in AP. If 1, 4 and 19 are added to them respectively, the results are
in GP. Determine the numbers.

(a) 2, 5, 8 (b) 1, 6, 8 (c) 8, 5, 2 (d) 2, 6, 10

Question: There are two progressions, P1 and P2, where the terms of P1 are in AP and the terms of P2 are in GP. The
first two terms are the same for both P1 and P2. What is the common difference for the progression P1, if the
difference between the third terms of P2 and P1 is equal to the reciprocal of the first term?

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4

Question: The first term of an arithmetic progression is 2 and the fourth term is 6. If the sum of first n terms of the
progression is 6800, find the value of n.

(a) 100 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) 160

Question: If the sums of first 8 and 19 terms of an AP are 64 and 361, respectively, then the sum of its first n terms
will be

(a) n2 + n (b) n(n + 1)/2 (c) n2 (d) 2n

Question: Three numbers are in the ratio of 1 : 5 : 11. If 3 is added to each of the numbers, the resulting numbers
will form a geometric progression. Find the original numbers.

1. 3, 15, 33 2. 2, 10, 22 3. 4, 20, 44 4. None of these

Question: If the sum of the first 11 terms of an AP equals the sum of the first 19 terms, then what is the sum of the
first 30 terms?

A. 0 B. -1 C. 1 D. None of these

Question: Consider an infinite sequence of numbers a1, a2, a3, ......, where a1 = 81.33, a2 = -19 and aj = aj - 1 - aj - 2 for
j ≥ 3. What is the sum of the first 6002 terms of this sequence?

(a) -100.33 (b) -30.00 (c) 62.33 (d) 119.33

Question: The 288th term of the series abbcccddddeeeeefffffff.... is

(a) u (b) v (c) w (d) 𝑥

Question: There are 8436 steel balls, each of radius 1 cm, stacked in a pile with 1 ball at the top, 3 balls in the second
layer, 6 in the third layer, 10 in the fourth, and so on. The number of horizontal layers in the pile will be

A. 34 B.38 C.36 D.32

Question: If the pth, qth, rth terms of an AP are x, y, z, respectively, then x(q - r) + y(r - p) + z(p - q) is equal to

Question: A series has its first term as unity and its first three terms are in GP. Also, second, third and fourth terms
are in HP. Further, third, fourth and fifth terms are in AP. If the sum of first five terms of the series is 2, then find the
common ratio of the GP.