Arithmetic and Geometric Progression
1. There is an AP 11,13,15 …….which term of this AP is 65?
2. Find the 37 th term in above series
3. Evaluate 1+3+5+7+9+11+13+15+17+19
4. Find the 1st term of an AP whose 8th and 12th terms are respectively 39 and 59.
5. What is the sum of the first 7 terms of a geometric progression with initial term 2 and
common ratio 3?
6. How many terms are there in the GP 5, 20, 80, 320,… 20480?
(a) 6 (b) 5
(c) 7 (d) 8
7. The first term of an AP is 3 and the last term is 17. If the sum of all terms is 150, what
is the 5th term? (IBPS)
a) 5 b) 7 c) 9 d) 11
8. Which term of the A.P. 3,8,13 ………. is 78?
a) 5 b) 10 c) 16 d) 20
9. A man joins a company XYZ in January 2019 and he receives his first salary Rs 1000.
After every month he gets an increment of Rs 500. What will be his salary after
completion of 5 years of his service?
a) 28500 b) 29500 c) 30500 d) 31500
10. The sum of three numbers in Arithmetic Progression is 72 and their product is 11880.
What are the numbers?
a) 21, 24, 27 b) 12, 24, 36 c) 18, 24, 30 d) 15, 24, 33
11. Find the value of the expression 1 – 7 + 2 – 8 + 3 – 9 +……… to 100 terms
a) –250 b) –500 c) –450 d) –300
12. Sum of first 25 terms in AP is 525; sum of the next 25 terms is 725, what is the
common difference? (CAT)
a) 8/25 b) 4/25 c) 6/25 d) 1/25
13. a, b, c, d and e are 5 distinct numbers that from an arithmetic progression. They are
not necessarily consecutive terms but form the first 5 terms of the AP. It is known that
c is the arithmetic mean of a and b, and d is the arithmetic mean of b and c. Which of
the following statements are true? (CAT)
i. Average of all 5 terms put together is c.
ii. Average of d and e is not greater than average of a and b.
iii. Average of b and c is greater than average of a and d.
a) i and ii only
b) ii and iii only
c) all three statements are true
d) i and iii only
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14. Find the sum of all odd numbers lying between 100 and 200. (RRB)
(a) 7500 (b) 2450 (c) 2550 (d) 2650
15. If x be the first term, y be the nth term and p be the product of n terms of a GP, then
the value of p2 will be
(a) (xy)n – 1 (b) (xy)n (c) (xy)1 – n (d) (xy)n/2
16. There are 4 Numbers in A.P such that the sum of the two means is 16 and the product
of two extremes is 28. Find the numbers
a) 2, 4, 5, 14 b) 2, 4, 12, 14 c) 2, 3, 13, 14 d) 2, 6, 10, 14
17. The distance travelled (in m) by a ball dropped from a height are 128/9, 32/3, 8, 6...
How much distance will it travel before coming to rest?
(a) 464/9 m (b) 120 m (c) 512/9 m (d) 256/9
18. The product of first three terms of a G. P. is 512. If we add 2 to its second term, the
three terms form an A. P. Find the terms of the G. P.
(a) 4, 8, 16 (b) 16, 8, 4 (c) 2, 4, 48 (d) Option A or B
19. The sum of three numbers in GP is 19 and their product is 216. Find the numbers?
a) 4,6,9 b) 3,6,12, c) 2,6,18 d) 1,6,36
20. A man arranges to pay off a debt of Rs. 36000 by 40 annual installments which are in
When A.P. When 30 installments are paid he dies leaving one third of the debt
unpaid. Find the value of the 12th installment.
a) 430 b) 520 c) 630 d) 730
𝑛(𝑛+1)
➢ Sum of first n numbers =
2
𝑛(𝑛+1)(2𝑛+1)
➢ Sum of squares of first n numbers =
6
𝑛^2(𝑛+1)^2
➢ Sum of cubes of first n numbers =
4
➢ Sum of first n even numbers =n(n+1)
➢ Sum of first n odd numbers =𝑛2
An=a x (𝑟 𝑛−1 )
a x (𝑟 𝑛 −1)
Sn=
(r−1)
a
Infinite terms S infinite =
(r−1)
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