Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Baribag Campus
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Mathematics in the Modern World

Faculty-Marked Activity #2

Name: ____________________________________ Course and Year: ___________ Score: _______

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Term: 1 Semester, 2022-2023 Instructor: Engr. Noel G. Benavides, Ph.D.

A. Find the nth term of each arithmetic sequence.

1. a1 = -1, d = -10, n = 25

2. a1 = -3, d = -9, n = 11

3. a1 = -7, d = 3, n = 17

4. a1 = 2, d = ½ , n = 8

B. Find the missing terms in each arithmetic sequence.

1. 55, ____, ____, ____, 115

2. -10, ___, ____, ____, 2

3. ____, -6, ____, ____, 15, ____

4. ____, 49, ____, ____, 28

C. Solve the following problems.

1. The last term of an arithmetic sequence is 207, the common difference is 3, and the number of terms is 14.
What is the first term?

2. The third term of an arithmetic sequence is 14 and the ninth term is –1. Find the first four terms of the
sequence.
3. Find the twelfth element of an arithmetic sequence whose first element is 2 and whose second element is
5.

4. The first three elements of an arithmetic sequence are 20, 16, and 12. Which element is -96?

D. Find the missing geometric mean.

1. 5, _____, _____, _____, 80

2. 7, _____, _____, _____, 112

3. _____, _____, -12, _____, _____, 96

4. _____, _____, _____, 24, _____, _____, _____, 384

E. Solve the following problems.

1. Find the third element of a geometric sequence whose fifth element is 81 and whose ninth element is
16.

2. Find the common ratio of a geometric sequence whose third element is -2 and whose sixth element is
54.

3. If the first element of a geometric sequence is 1/8 and the eighth element is -16, what is the sixth
element?

4. In the geometric sequence whose first three elements are 27, -18 and 12, which element is
-512/729?