MARYKNOLL SCHOOL OF STO. TOMAS, INC.

Fd. Road 3, Brgy. Tibal-og

First Monthly Examination

Direction: Read carefully each item and choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. Narcisa wants to find the fifth term of a sequence -12,-5, 2, 9,16 which concept will you
suggest to be used?
A. Arithmetic Sequence B. Geometric Sequence C. Fibonacci D. Harmonic
2. If 5, 25, 125,625 is a geometric sequence, what is the common ratio?
A. -5 B. 5 C. 10 D.-10
3. Which of the following is an arithmetic sequence?
1 1 1
A. 3,9,27,81 B. 22, 32, 42,52 C.1 , , , D. 1,1,2,3,5
2 3 4
4. What is the sum of the first 30 terms of the arithmetic sequence 50, 45, 40, 35?
A.-675 B. 275 C. 675 D.3675
5. Find the tenth term of the arithmetic sequence 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 ….
A. 60 B. 61 C. 62 D. 63
6. What is the common difference of the sequence 20, 16, 12, 8, 4 …?
A. 4 B. -4 C. 2 D. -2
7. What is the next term of the sequence 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29?
A. 46 B. 47 C. 48 D. 49
8. What is the fiftieth term of the arithmetic sequence 3, 9, 15, 21, 27…?
A. 285 B. 291 C.297 D. 303
9. An r in the geometric sequence is referred to a common ratio, which among the following
describes it?
A. It is the fixed amount multiplied
B. To find the common ratio, divide the second term by the first term
C. It cannot be equal to zero.
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
10. The fifth term of an arithmetic sequence is 17 and the tenth term is 32. What is the first term?
A. 2 B.5 C. 8 D. 11
11. What is the twentieth term of the arithmetic sequence 21, 18, 15, 12,…?
A. -19 B. -13 C.-9 D.6
12. What is the sum of the first 30 terms of the arithmetic sequence 40, 35, 30, 25..?
A. -970 B. -975 C. 975 D.970
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13. Find the 27 term of the arithmetic sequence -5, 0, 5,10,15….
A. 120 B.125 C. 130 D.135
14. What is the fifth term of the sequence 3,9,27,..?
A. 81 B.243 C. 729 D.2187
15. What is the common difference of the sequence 57,53,49,45…?
A. -4 B.4 C.8 D.16
16. What is the formula for finding the nth term of an arithmetic sequence?
n
A.a n=a1 +(n−1)d B.a n=a1 r n−1 C. Sn= [ 2 a+(n−1)d ] D. n(n−1)
2
17. What is the formula for the sum of arithmetic series?
 n
A.a n=a1 +(n−1)d B.a n=a1 r n−1 C. Sn= [ 2 a+(n−1)d ] D. n(n−1)
2
18. What is the formula for the nthterm of arithmetic sequence?
n
A.a n=a1 +(n−1)d B.a n=a1 r n−1 C. Sn= [ 2 a+(n−1)d ] D. n(n−1)
2
19. What is the formula for finding the sum of finite geometric series?
(1−r n ) n
A. Sn=a1 [ 1−r ] B.a n=a1 r n−1 C. Sn= [ 2 a+(n−1)d ] D. n(n−1)
2
20. A display of cans on a grocery shelf consists of 30 cans on the bottom, 28 cans in the next
row and so on in an arithmetic sequence, until the top row has 4 cans. How many cans in
total are in the display?
A. 234 B. 236 C.238 D.240
21. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is equal to 300 and the common difference is equal
to -20. Find the value of the 20th term?
A.-100 B. -80 C.-60 D. -40
1 1
22. Find the sum of the geometric sequence 2, , … . .
2 8
8 9 10 11
A. B. C. D.
3 3 3 3
23. What is the formula for finding the sum of infinite geometric series?
(1−r n ) n a1
A. Sn=a1 [ 1−r ] B.a n=a1 r n−1 C. Sn= [ 2 a+(n−1)d ] D. S∞ =
2 (1−r )
1
24. In the sequence 9,3,1, ,… what is the ratio?
3
1 1
A. - B. C. 3 D. -3
3 3
25. What is the thirty-second term of the arithmetic sequence -12, -7, -2, 3,…?
A. 143 B. 148 C. 153 D.167
26. Which of the following is a geometric sequence?
1 1 1
A. 3,9,27,81 B. 22, 32, 42,52 C.1 , , , D. 1,1,2,3,5
2 3 4
27. The 3rd term of an arithmetic sequence is 5 and the common difference is 3. Find a 11 .
A. 27 B. 28 C. 29 D. 30
28. In an arithmetic sequence, the 4th term is 30 and the 10th term is 66. Find the common
difference.
A. -6 B. 6 C. 12 D.18
29. It is a sequence in which a constant, d, is added to the previous term to get the next value.
A. Geometric B. Arithmetic C. Fibonacci D. Harmonic
30. If a 3=4 and a 5=15. What is the common difference?
A.-5 B.5 C.10 D.11
31. If a 1 = 4 and the common difference is 3, then what is the sum of the first twenty terms of the
sequence?
A. 620 B. 630 C.640 D.650
32. In the sequence 2, 5, 8, 11,14…, what is the first term?
A. 2 B.3 C. 5 D. 14
33. Let a, b, c are three consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence. Which is true?
a+c a+c b
A. a+ c=b B. =b C. =b D.a+ c=
2 4 2
34. It is the term(s) between any two terms of an arithmetic sequence.
A.Geometric mean B. Arithmetic mean C.ratio D. common difference
35. In an arithmetic sequence, the 3rd term is 27, and the 8th term is 62. What is the 5th term in the
sequence?
A.39 B. 40 C. 41 D.42
36. If 7, a, b, c, 43 is an arithmetic sequence , find the values of a , b , and c.
A. 16, 25, 34 B. 15, 23, 31 C. 17, 27, 37 D.12, 17, 22

37. The first four terms of a geometric sequence are 2, 8, 32 and 128.
What is the 8th term?
A. 32768 B. 32770 C. 32678 D.32876
38. For the sequence 100, 50, 25, ... how many terms does it take to get below 1?
A. 6 terms B. 7 terms C. 8 terms D. 9 terms
39. In the sequence 200, 100, 50, 25,…, what is the common ratio?
1 1
A. B. C. 1 D.2
4 2
40. Which of the situation below produces geometric sequence?
A. A baby gains 60 grams every week.
B. A car’s value depreciates by 20% every year.
C. A kid grows 30cm every year.
D. Luvie saves 5 pesos every day..