DPT Sequence & Series (Harmonic Progression) – 3

1. The progression formed by the reciprocals of the terms 9. Sum of the series 3  4  8  9  13  14  18 + .... to
of an A.P. is :
20 terms is :
(a) A.P. (b) G.P.
(a) 520 (b) 1040 (c) 260 (d) 770
(c) H.P. (d) None of these
2. If a, b, c are in H.P., then the value of 10. If A, G, H are respectively arithmetic mean, geometric
mean and harmonic mean then :
 1 1 1  1 1 1 (a) A > G > H (b) A < G > H
        is
b c a c a b (c) A < G < H (d) A > G < H
2 1 1  3 2 1  11. If a, 4, b are in A.P., and a, 2, b are in G.P., then a, 1, b
  2   
(a)
bc b 2
(b) 4
c ca a 2  are in :
3 2 (a) A.P. (b) G.P.
(c) 2  (d) all three
b ab (c) H.P. (d) None of these
3. The first term of a H.P. whose 5th term is 7/19 and 9th 12. The A.M., G.M. and H.M. between two positive numbers
term is 7/44 is : a and b are equal then :
(a) 7/8 (b) – 7/6 (c) 2/7 (d) 9/7 (a) a = b (b) ab = 1 (c) a > b (d) a < b

4. When the terms of a G.P. are written in reverse order, 13. The nth term of the series 3 + 7 + 13 + 21 + 31 + .... is :
the progression formed is : (a) 4n  1 (b) n 2  2n
(a) A.P. (b) G.P.
(c) n 2  n  1 (d) n 3  2
(c) H.P. (d) None of these
14. The number that must be added to each of the numbers
5. If the 7th term of a H.P. is 1/10 and 12th term is 1/25, then
13, 15, 19 so that the resulting numbers are in H.P. is :
its 20th term is :
(a) – 3 (b) 1 (c) – 1 (d) – 7
(a) 1/37 (b) 1/41 (c) 1/45 (d) 1/49
ba bc
6. The sum of the 30 terms of the series 1, 6, 11, 16, .... is : 15. a, b, c are in H.P., then the value of  is :
ba bc
(a) 2190 (b) 2280
(c) 2205 (d) None of these (a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) None of these
7. If b  c , c  a, a  b are in H.P., then a 2 , b 2 , c 2 will be 16. The sum of two numbers is 10, their product is 20. The
in : sum of their reciprocals is :
(a) A.P. (b) G.P. (a) 2 (b) 1/2 (c) 1/10 (d) 1/30
(c) H.P. (d) None of these
a a
17. The harmonic mean of and is :
8. If a, b, c are in A.P. then 1  ab 1  ab
bc ca ab a a
, , are in : (a) (b)
ca  ab bc  ab bc  ca 1 a b2 2
1  a2 b2
(a) A.P. (b) G.P. 1
(c) a (d)
(c) H.P. (d) None of these 1  a2 b2

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18. The common difference of an A.P. is d, what will be the 25. If a, b, c are in A.P. b, c, d are in G.P. and c, d , e are in
common difference of corresponding H.P. ?
H.P., then the number a, c, e are in :
(a) d (b) 1/d
(a) A.P. (b) G.P.
(c) 1 – d (d) None of these
(c) H.P. (d) None of these
19. If a, b, c are in A.P., as well as in G.P., then
26. The sum of first  Sn  terms of the series
(a) a  b  c (b) a  b  c
(c) a  b  c (d) a  b  c 1 3 7 15
    .... is equal to :
2 4 8 16
20. If the ratio of H.M. and G.M. of two numbers is 12 : 13,
then the ratio of the numbers is : (a) 2n  n  1 (b) 1  2 n
(a) 1 : 2 (b) 2 : 3 (c) 9 : 4 (d) None (c) n  2n  1 (d) 2n  1
21. The A.M. between two numbers is 5 and the G.M. is 4 27. Sum of the series
the H.M. between them is :
n.1  ( n  1).2  ( n  2).3  ....  1.n 
1 1
(a) 3 (b) 1 (c) 9 (d) 1 (a) 1 / 6.n( n  1)(n  2) (b) 1 / 6.n( n  1)(2n  1)
5 4
(c) 1 / 6.n( n  1)(n  2) (d) None of these
22. If p, q, r are in A.P. and x, y , z are in G.P. then
28. The sum of the terms of the series
xq  r  y r p
 z p q is equal to :
1  2 x  3 x 2  4 x 3  .... for x  1 , is :
(a) 1 (b) xyz (c) x  y  z (d) p  q  r
(a) 1  x n /(1  x 2 )
23. If H is the harmonic mean between a and b then (b) 1  x n /(1  x 2 )  [nx n / 1  x ]
 1   1  (c) 1  x n /(1  x )2  nx n / 1  x
   is equal to :
H a H b
(d) none
1 1 1 1
(a) a + b (b) ab (c)  (d)  29.  ( r 2  r 3 ) is equal to :
a b a b
(a) r 2  r 3 (b) r 2.r 3
24. If pth, qth and rth terms of a H.P. be a, b and c respec-
(c) r 2 / r 3 (d) None of these
tively, then the value of
( p  q ) / c  ( r  p ) / b  (q  r ) / a is : 30. The fractional value of 0.23 :
(a) 23/99 (b) 5/9 (c) 99/204 (d) 9/5
(a) One (b) Three (c) zero (d) None

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