1. ‘The first five terms of an arithmetic sequence are: ~20,-17, 14,11 Find an expression for the n! term of the sequence. 2 Here is a picture of four models. Some of the cubes are hidden behind other cubes. a tee Model one consists of one cube. Model two consists of four cubes and so on. (@) How many cubes are in the third model? (©) How many cubes are in the fourth model? (© Ifa fifth model were built, how many cubes would i take? (d) Find an expression for the number of cubes used in the nth model (€) Sketch a side view, front view and plan view of the fourth model. 3 (a) Find the nth term of the sequence 7, 13, 19, 25,, (b) ina sequence of four numbers, the difference between each number is 9. The sum of the four numbers is 2 What are the numbers in the sequence? You must show all your working. 4. Work out an expression for the n'™ term of the quadratic sequence 0,9,22, 39, 60, Give your answer in the form an? + bn + where a, b and c are constants. 5. Find an expression, in terms of n, for the nth term of the sequence that has the following first five terms: 6 13 23 36 52Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 ‘The diagrams above show a growing fractal of triangles. The sides of the largest equilateral triangle in each diagram are of length T metre, In the second diagram there are four triangles each with sides of length 4 metre. In the third diagram there are 16 triangles each with sides of length 3 metre. (a) Complete this table for more diagrams. Diagram 1 [Diagram 2] Diagram 3 [Diagram 4 Diagram § | Diagram 6| | Diagram n. Length of Side 1 3 7 Power of 2 2 2 2 (©) Complete this table for the number of the smallest triangles in diagrams 4, § and 6, Diagram 1 Diagram 2 [Diagram 3, Diagram 4| Diagram 5 Diagram 6| | Diagram n_ Number of smallest triangles | | 4 16 Power of 2 2 2 2 (© Caleulate the number of the smallest triangles inthe diagram where the smallest triangles have sides of length iy metre 7 ‘The diagrams below show a sequence of patterns made from red and yellow tiles. os MM (a) Find an expression, in terms of m, for the number of red tiles in pattern n. The total number of red and yellow tiles in each pattern is always the sum of the squares of two consecutive whole numbers. (®) Find an expression, in terms of n, for the total number tiles in Pattern n giving your answer in its simplest form. (© Is there a pattern for which the total number of tiles is 303? Give a reason for your answer. (@) Explain why the total number of tiles in any pattern of this sequence is always an odd number.‘The first three and last terms of an arithmetic sequence are 7,13,19,...,1357 (a) Find the common difference. (8) Find the number of terms in the sequence. (©) What is the sum of the sequence. 9. ‘An arithmetic sequence is given by 6, 13, 20, (a) Write down the value of the common difference, d (©) Find uso (© Find Si (@) Given that tux = 1434 , find the value of n. 10. Invan arithmetic sequence, the fifth term is 44 and the ninth term is 80. (@) Find the common difference (©) Find the first term, (© Find the sum of the first 50 terms of the sequence, ‘A square is drawn with sides of length 32 cm. The midpoints of the sides of this square are joined to form a new square and four red triangles. The process is repeated to produce yellow triangles and then again to produce blue triangles. The length of the equal sides of the red triangles are denoted by x: and their areas are each Ay. The length of the equal sides of the yellow triangles are denoted by x» and their areas are each Ay. The length of the equal sides of the blue triangles are denoted by z and their areas are each Ay (a) The following table gives the values of z,, and A,, for 1 250. 14. ‘A Grecian amphitheatre was built in the form of a horseshoe and has 22 rows. ‘The number of seats in each row increase by a fixed amount, d, compared to the number of seats in the previous row, The ‘number of seats in the fifth row, us, is 58, and the number of seats in the ninth row, ug, is 86. wy represents the number Of seats in the first row. (a) Write an equation for us in terms of d and uy (©) Write an equation for ug in terms of d and uy (©) Write down the value of di (@ Write down the value of uy (@) Find the total number of seats in the amphitheatre. Some time later, a second level was added to increase the amphitheatre’s capacity by another 2590 seats. Each row has five more seats than the previous row. The first row on this level has 82 seats. (O Find the number of rows on the second level of the amphitheatre, 15. In.a geometric series the common ratio Is r and sum ton terms Is Sy, Given that $; = $54, and r = +4 find the value of k.16. Chris checks his Twitter account and notices that he received a tweet at 8:00am. At 8:05am he forwards the tweet to four people. Five minutes later, those four people each forward the tweet to four new people. Assume this pattern continues. and each time the tweet is sent to people who have not received it before, ‘The number of new people who receive the tweet forms a geometric sequence 44, (@) Write down the next two terms ofthis geometric sequence (©) Write down the common ratio ofthis geometric sequence. (© Calculate the number of people who will receive the tweet at 8:40am, (4) Caleulate the total number of people who will have received the tweet by 8:40am. () Calculate the exact time at which a total of 5 592 405 people will have received the tweet. 17. The sums ofthe terms of a sequence are given as follows where k € Z: Sy = B41, 8) = Ak + 3,8) = 9K +7, 5, = 16K +15 (a) Find the first four terms ofthe sequence (©) Find a general expression for the n'™ term of the sequence, tin. 18. Consider the number sequence where w, = 500, uz = 519, us = 538 and uy = 557 etc, (a) Find the value of usy (©) Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the sequence: ‘Another number sequence is defined where wy =4,w, = 8, = 16 and wy = 32 etc, (© Find the exact value of wso, (@ Find the sum of the first 9 terms of this sequence. Kis the smallest value of n for which wh is greater than ty, (€) Calculate the value of k.