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ARTIHMETIC PROGRESSIONS
MIND MAPPING

BASIC FACTS AND FORMULAE:

1. An arithmetic progression is a list of numbers in which each term is obtained by

adding a fixed number to the preceeding term, except the first term.

2. The difference between the two successive terms of an A.P. is called the common

difference.

3. Condition for a list of numbers to be in A.P: The numbers , , , … are

said to be in A.P., if − = − = …………

4. The General Form of an A.P: The general form of an A.P. with the first term a

and the common difference is given by , + , +2 , + 3 , ….

5. The General or n th term of an A.P: In an A.P. with first term a and the common
difference d, the General term or nth term is given by an  a  n  1 d

6. Selection of Terms in an A.P:

i) For three terms, we take a  d, a , a  d

ii) For four terms, we take: a  3d ,a  d , a  d , a  3d

iii) For five terms, we take −2 , − , , + and + 2 and so on.

7. nth term from the end of an A.P. is given by − ( − 1)d, where is last term, d is

common difference and n is number of terms.

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n
8. Sum of n terms of an A.P. is given by Sn  2a  n  1 d  , where ‘a’ is the first
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term, d is the common difference and is the total number of terms.
n
9. Sum of terms of an A.P. is also given by Sn  a  l  , where a is the first term,
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and is the last term.

a c
10. If a, b,c are in A.P, then b  and b is called the arithmetic mean of a and c
2

11. n th term in terms of Sn : If the sum Sn of n th term of an A.P. is given, then the

n th term of the A.P is given by an  Sn  Sn 1 , for > 1.

LEVEL – I

MCQ:

1. The 10th term of the sequence 3, 12, 27.... is

a) 243 b) 300 c) 363 d) 432

2. The 8th term of an A.P is 17 and its 14th term is 29. The common difference of
this AP is:

a) 3 b) 2 c) 5 d) -2

3. The sum of first 100 even natural numbers is:

a) 10100 b) 2550 c) 5050 d) 10010

4. The seventh term of an A.P whose first term is 28 and the common difference -4
is:

a) 0 b) 4 c) 52 d) 56

5. How many terms are there in the A.P. given below?

14, 19, 24, 29......,119

a) 18 b) 14 c) 22 d) 21

6. If -5, x, 3 are three consecutive terms of an A.P., then the value of x is:

a) -2 b) 2 c) 1 d) -1

7. The common difference of the A.P. whose nth term is given by an = 3n + 7,

is:
a) 7 b) 3 c) 3n d) 1

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8. The 11th term from the end of the A.P.: 10, 7, 4,……., -62 is:

a) 25 b) 16 c) -32 d) 0

9. If p-1, p+1 and 2p+3 are in A.P., then the value of p is:

a) -2 b) 4 c) 0 d) 2

10. Which of the following is an infinite AP?

i) -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7…

ii) -14, -12, -10, -8, ___, ____, ____, 0

iii) First 40 even numbers

iv) Odd Numbers

a) i) & ii) b) ii) & iii) c) i) & iv) d) ii) & iv)

2-MARKS:
1. How many two - digit numbers are divisible by 3?

2. In an A.P. it is given that common difference is 5 and sum of its first ten terms is

75. Find the first term of the A.P.

3. Find the sum of first 8 multiples of 3.

1 1 3
4. Which term of the progression 20, 19 , 18 , 17 ,.... is the first negative term?
4 2 4

5. Which term of the AP: 3, 15, 27, 39 . . . will be 132 more than its 54th term?

6. For what value of n, are the n th terms of two A.P’s 63, 65, 67, … and 3, 10, 17, …

equal?

7. The 4th term of an . is zero, then prove that the 25th term of the A.P. is three

times its 11th term.

8. In an , if S5  S 7  167 and S10  235 , then find the , where denotes the

sum of its first terms.

9. The nth term of an A.P. is 7  4n . Find its common difference.

10. Find the number of terms in the A.P. 18, 15 , 13, ………, −47

11. Check whether −150 is a term of the AP: 11, 8, 5, 2 ….

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12. Find the sum of the odd numbers between 0 and 50.
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13. Find the common difference of an A.P, whose first term is and the 8th term is
2
17
. Also write its 4th term.
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14. The 7th term of an A.P. is 32 and its 13th term is 62. Find the A.P.

3-MARKS:
1. Find the sum of all 11 terms of an A.P. whose middle most term is 30.

2. Find a, b and c if it is given that the numbers a, 7, b, 23, c are in A.P.

3. The first term of an A.P. is 5, the last term is 45 and sum of all its terms is 400.

Find the number of terms and the common difference of the A.P.

4. If the 10th term of an A.P. is 52 and the 17th term is 20 more than the 13th term,

find the A.P.

5. How many terms of an A.P. 9, 17, 25, … … must be taken to give a sum of 636?

6. The first term of an AP is 5, the last term is 45 and the sum is 400. Find the

number of terms and the common difference.

7. The 14th term of an AP is twice its 8th term. If its 6th term is −8, then find the

sum of its first 20 terms.

8. If 7 times the 7th term of an A.P. is equal to 11 times its 11th term, show that its

18th term is zero.

9. The sum of the first n terms of an A.P. is given by Sn  3n 2  4n . Determine the

A.P. and the nth term.

10. In an A.P. the first term is −4, the last term is 29 and the sum of all its terms is

150. Find its common difference.

11. If the sum of the first n terms of an AP is 4n – n2, what is first term (that is S1)?

What is the sum of first two terms? What is the second term? Similarly, find the

3rd, 10th and the nth terms.

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12. If the nth term of an A.P. is (2 + 1), find the sum of first terms of the A.P.

13. How many three digit numbers are divisible by 7?

14. Find whether 55 is a term of the AP 7,10,13,...... or not. If yes, find which term it

is.

15. Find the 20th term from the last term of the AP: 3, 8, 13,….., 253.

5-MARKS:

1. If 4 times the 4th term of an AP is equal to 18 times the 18th term, then find the

22nd term.

2. How many terms of the AP: 24, 21, 18,... must be taken so that their sum is 78?

3. If times the m th term of an Arithmetic Progression is equal to n times its n th

th
term and m  n . show that the m  n  term of the A.P. is zero.

4. The sum of the first three numbers in an Arithmetic Progression is 18. If the

product of the first the third term is 5 times the common difference, find the

three numbers.

5. The sum of four consecutive numbers in an AP is 32 and the ratio of the product

of the first and last term to the product of two middle terms is 7: 15. Find the

numbers.

6. If the ratio of the sum of the first terms of two A.P is (7 + 1): (4 + 27), then

find the ratio of 9th terms.

7. Find the 60th term of the A.P., 8,10,12, …. if it has a total of 60 terms and hence

find the sum 1 last 10 terms.

8. A manufacturer of TV sets produced 600 sets in the third year and 700 sets in

the seventh year. Assuming that the production increases uniformly by a fixed

number every year, find: (i) the production in the 1st year (ii) the production in

the 10th year (iii) the total production in first 7 years

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9. A spiral is made up of successive semicircles, with centres alternately at A and
B, starting with centre at A, of radii 0.5 cm, 1.0 cm, 1.5 cm, 2.0 cm . . . as
shown in Fig. What is the total length of such a spiral made up of thirteen
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consecutive semicircles? (Take   ).
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10. If the sum of first 7 terms of an AP is 49 and that of 17 terms is 289, find the

sum of first n terms.

CASE STUDY QUESTIONS

CASE STUDY_1

India is competitive manufacturing location due to the low cost of manpower

and strong technical and engineering capabilities contributing to higher quality

production runs. The production of TV sets in a factory increases uniformly by a

fixed number every year. It produced 16000 sets in 6th year and 22600 in 9th

year.

Based on the above information answer the following questions:

(i) Find the production during 8th year. 1

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(ii) In which year the production is Rs. 29,200? 1

(iii) Find the production during first 3 years. 2

OR

Find the difference of the production during 7th year and 4th year 2

CASE STUDY_2

In a potato race, a bucket is placed at the starting point, which is 8 m from the

first potato, and the other potatoes are placed 6m apart in a straight line. There

are ten potatoes in the line (see below figure).

A competitor starts from the bucket, picks up the nearest potato, runs back with

it, drops it in the bucket, runs back to pick up the next potato, runs to the

bucket to drop it in, and she continues in the same way until all the potatoes

are in the bucket.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions:

(i) What is the distance covered by the competitor in the first potato? 1

(ii) What is the distance covered by the competitor in second potato? 1

(iii) What is total distance covered by the competitor in first & second potato? 2

OR

If the A.P. 8, 14, 20, ……. then find the common difference. 2

CASE STUDY_3

Aditya is celebrating his birthday. He invited his friends. He bought a packet of

toffees/candies which contains 120 candies. He arranges the candies such that
in the first row there are 3 candies, in second there are 5 candies, in third there
are 7 candies and so on…

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Based on the above information, answer the following questions:

i) Form an A.P for the above given situation? 1

ii) Find the difference in number of candies placed in 7th and 3rd row. 1

iii) Find the total number of rows of candies. 2

OR
iv) If Aditya decides to make 15 rows, then how many total candies will be placed
by him with the same arrangement? 2
LEVEL – II
MCQ:
1. What would be the last term of an A.P with 20 terms whose 4th term is -46 and
third term is -70?
a) -338 b) 338 c) 142 d) -142
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2. If the first term of an AP is 2 and the common difference is , what would be
2
the 12th term of the AP?
 1  1
a) 2  11    b) 2  12   
 2  2
 1  1
c) 2  11    d) 2  12   
 2  2
3. Find the nth term of the AP shown below. __, __, -36, __, -44, ………. up to n.

a) 4n-32 b) -40+4n c) 24-4n d) -4n-24

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