Üsküdar American Academy

Grade 11 Mathematics
Worksheet#2 - Sequences

Name and Number:

1. Consider an arithmetic sequence 2, 6, 10, 14, ...

(a) Find the common difference, d.
(b) Find the 10th term in the sequence.

2. y An arithmetic sequence has u1 = 40, u2 = 32, u3 = 24

(a) Find the common difference, d.
(b) Find u8 .

3. y Only one of the following four sequences is arithmetic and only one of
them is geometric:

an = 1, 5, 10, 15, ... cn = 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6, ...

1 2 3 4 1 1
bn = , , , , ... dn = 2, 1, , , ...
2 3 4 5 2 4

(a) State which sequence is arithmetic and find the common difference of the
sequence.
(b) State which sequence is geometric and find the common ratio of the
sequence.
(c) For the geometric sequence find the exact value of the eighth term. Give
your answer as a fraction.

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4. y Consider infinite geometric sequence 4480, −3360, 2520, −1890, ...
(a) Find the common ratio, r.
(b) Find the 20th term.

5. An arithmetic sequence is given by 3, 5, 7, ...

(a) Write down the value of the common difference, d.
(b) Find
i. u10 .
ii. S10 .
(c) Given that un = 253, find the value of n.

6. y The third term, u3 , of an arithmetic sequence is 7. The common difference

of the sequence, d, is 3.
(a) Find u1 , the first term of the sequence.
(b) Find u60 , the 60th term of the sequence.

The first and fourth term of this arithmetic sequence are the first two
terms of a geometric sequence.

(c) Calculate the sixth term of the geometric sequence.

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7. y The fourth term, u4 , of a geometric sequence is 135. The fifth term, u5 , is
81.
(a) Find the common ratio of the sequence.
(b) Find u1 , the first term of the sequence.

8. Consider the following sequence of figures

Figure 1 contains 6 line segments. Given that figure n contains 101 line seg-
ments, show that n = 20.

9. The 1st, 5th, and 13th terms of an arithmetic sequence, with common differ-
ence d, d ̸= 0, are the first three terms of a geometric sequence, with common
ratio r, r ̸= 0. Given that the 1st term of both sequences is 12, find the value
of d and the value of r.

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10. The first three terms of an infinite geometric sequence are k − 4, 4, k + 2,
where k ∈ Z.
(a) i. Write down an expression for the common ratio r.
ii. Hence show that k satisfies the equation k 2 − 2k − 24 = 0.

(b) i. Find the possible values for k.

ii. Find the possible values for r.

11. The first two terms of an infinite geometric sequence are u1 = 20 and
u2 = 16 sin2 θ, where 0 < θ < 2π, and θ ̸= π.
(a) Find an expression for r in terms of θ.
(b) Find the possible values of r.

12. Consider an arithmetic sequence with u1 = 5 and u6 = log3 32.

Find the common difference of the sequence, expressing our answer in the
form log3 a where a ∈ Q .