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Assigned Date: Due Date:
Class Work : WS4 – OXFORD CAMBRIDGE

Practice Questions :
1. An amount $ 5 000 is invested at a simple interest rate of 3% p.a for a period of 8
years.
a. Calculate the interest received after 8 years
b. Find the account balance after the 8 years
c. Find the time it will take for the account balance to double.

2. Find the amount of money borrowed if later 7 years later the interest charged is
$ 9000 at a rate of 7.5% p.a.
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Hands on GDC Calculator – Modelling

1. For each of the following arithmetic sequences:

i State its first term and common difference.
ii Find the 10th term of the sequence.
iii Determine, giving your reasons, whether 49 is an element of the sequence.
a un = 3n + 1, n ∈ _ℤ+. Remember that ℤ+ is the set of positive integers: {1, 2, 3, …}.
b 206, 199, 192, …

2.

a. Find the sum of the arithmetic series −10 + (−6) + (−2) + … + 90.
b Write down this series in sigma notation.
c Find the least number of terms from this series needed to obtain a sum
greater than 100.
3.
3.
A piledriver is a machine used in construction to drive support poles into the
ground by
repeatedly striking them. Acme construction company uses a piledriver that
drives support poles 0.12 m deeper into the ground with each strike. The
current support pole has already been driven 13.6 m into the ground.
a If the sequence {un} represents the depth of the support pole after n strikes,
find the first three terms of the sequence.
b Write down an expression for the nth term of the sequence.
c The support poles must be driven to a depth of at least 38 m below ground.
Determine
i the number of strikes needed to reach this depth
ii the exact depth it will then have reached