Assignment Mathematics
Std: 10th Arithmetic Progression
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. What is the common difference of the AP: 3, 7, 11, 15, …?
a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5
2. The 10th term of the AP: 5, 8, 11, 14, … is:
a) 32 b) 35 c) 38 d) 41
3. If the first term of an AP is 2 and the common difference is 3, what is the 15th term?
a) 42 b) 44 c) 46 d) 48
4. The sum of the first 20 terms of the AP: 2, 7, 12, 17, … is:
a) 990 b) 1000 c) 1010 d) 1020
5. Which term of the AP: 3, 8, 13, 18, … is 78?
a) 15th b) 16th c) 17th d) 18th
6. If the sum of n terms of an AP is 3n² + 5n, what is the common difference?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
7. The first term of an AP is -5 and the last term is 45. If the sum of the terms is 400, how many terms
are there?
a) 15 b) 16 c) 17 d) 18
8. Which of the following is not true
a) 𝑛 = +1 b) 𝑑 = 𝑎 − 𝑎 c) 𝑎 = 𝑆 − 𝑆 d) 𝑑 =
9. The sum of the first 10 terms of an AP is 155 and the sum of the first 20 terms is 610. What is the
common difference?
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6
10. Which of the following sequences is not an AP?
a) 1, 3, 5, 7, … b) 2, 5, 8, 11, …. c) 1, 4, 9, 16, … d) 0, -4, -8, -12, …
11. The nth term of an AP is given by 3n + 4. What is the common difference?
a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5
12. If the sum of the first n terms of an AP is n² + 2n, what is the 5th term?
a) 9 b) 10 c) 11 d) 12
13. The first term of an AP is 10 and the common difference is -2. What is the 12th term?
a) -10 b) -12 c) -14 d) -16
14. How many terms of the AP: 9, 17, 25, ……. must be taken to give a sum of 636?
a) 12 b) 13 c) 14 d) 15
15. If the 7th term of an AP is 20 and the 13th term is 32, what is the common difference?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
16. The sum of the first 15 terms of an AP with first term 8 and common difference 3 is:
a) 330 b) 360 c) 390 d) 420
17. If the 4th term of an AP is 11 and the 8th term is 19, what is the 12th term?
a) 25 b) 26 c) 27 d) 28
18. The common difference of an AP whose nth term is 5n - 1 is:
a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7
19. If the sum of n terms of an AP is 2n² + 3n, what is the 10th term?
a) 41 b) 42 c) 43 d) 44
20. Which term of the AP: -2, -7, -12, … is -77?
a) 15th b) 16th c) 17th d) 18th
Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
1. The common difference of the AP: 2, 5, 8, 11, ……. is ______.
2. The 8th term of the AP: 7, 13, 19, 25, …….. is ______.
3. If the first term of an AP is 4 and the common difference is 5, the 10th term is ______.
4. The sum of the first 12 terms of the AP: 3, 7, 11, 15, ……. is ______.
5. The 15th term of the AP whose nth term is 3n + 2 is ______.
6. If the sum of n terms of an AP is 4n² + n, the common difference is ______.
7. The number of terms in the AP: 7, 13, 19, …, 67 is ______.
8. If the 5th term of an AP is 23 and the 9th term is 39, the common difference is ______.
9. The sum of the first 10 terms of the AP with first term 5 and common difference 3 is ______.
10. The first term of an AP is 10 and the 10th term is 46. The common difference is ______.
11. The nth term of an AP is 4n - 3. The 7th term is ______.
12. The sum of the first 8 terms of the AP: 1, 4, 7, 10, … is ______.
13. If the sum of n terms of an AP is 3n² - n, the 6th term is ______.
14. The common difference of the AP: -5, -1, 3, 7, … is ______.
15. The 20th term of the AP: 2, -3, -8, -13, … is ______.
16. If the first term is 3 and the sum of the first 10 terms is 185, the common difference is ______.
17. The number of terms in the AP: 20, 17, 14, …, -10 is ______.
18. If the 3rd term of an AP is 7 and the 7th term is 15, the first term is ______.
19. The sum of the first 15 terms of the AP: 10, 15, 20, … is ______.
20. If d=9 then find the value of 𝑎 − 𝑎 is __________.
21. If 2𝑝 + 1, 13 𝑎𝑛𝑑 5𝑝 − 3 are in AP then value of p is ____________.
Solve the Given Problem
1. Check whether 301 is a term of the list of numbers 5, 11, 17, 23, . . .
2. If 3 +k, 18 -k, 5k +1 are in A.P. then find k.
3. Find x, y and z, given that the numbers x, 10, y, 24, z are in A.P.
4. The ratio of 6th and 8th term of an A.P. is 7:9. Find the ratio of 9th term to 13th term.
5. How many consecutive odd integers beginning with 5 will sum to 480?
6. Find the sum of first 28 terms of an A.P. whose nth term is 4n -3.
7. The sum of three consecutive terms that are in A.P. is 27 and their product is 288.
Find the three terms.
8. Find the 11th term from the last term of the AP : 10, 7, 4, . . ., – 62.
9. Find the next three terms of the AP: 1 , 5 , 7 , 73 … … … … … ..
10. For what value of n, are the nth terms of two APs: 63, 65, 67, . . . . . and 3, 10, 17, . . . . . . . .equal?
11. If the sum of the first n terms of an AP is 4n – 𝑛 , find the 3rd, 10th and the nth terms.
12. The sum of the 4th and 8th terms of an AP is 24 and the sum of the 6th and 10th
terms is 44. Find the first three terms of the AP.
13. Check whether 301 is a term of the list of numbers 5, 11, 17, 23, . . .
14. Which term of the AP : 21, 18, 15, . . . is – 81?
15. Find the 11th term from the last term of the AP : 10, 7, 4, . . ., – 62
16. How many multiples of 4 lie between 100 and 2050?
17. Determine the AP whose third term is 16 and the 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.
18. Two APs have the same common difference. The difference between their 500th terms is 123, what
is the difference between their 5000th terms?
19. How many terms of the AP : 9, 17, 25, . . . must be taken to give a sum of 636?
20. If the sum of the first 14 terms of an AP is 1050 and its first term is 10, find the 20th term.
21. Find the sum of first 24 terms of the list of numbers whose nth term is given by an = 3 + 2n
22. If the sum of the first n terms of an AP is 4n – 𝑛 , what is the first term ? What is the sum of first
two terms? What is the second term? find 10th and the nth terms.
23. Which term of the AP : 121, 117, 113, . . ., is its first negative term?
24. The sum of the third and the seventh terms of an AP is 6 and their product is 8. Find the sixteen
terms of the AP.
25. In an AP given 𝑎 = 4, d = 2, 𝑆 = –14, find n and a.
26. Which of the following is not an AP?
a) 3, 3+√2, 3 + 2√2 , 3+3√2 3+4√2 …. b) , , ……
c) √3, √6, √9, √12 …. d) √2, √8, √18, √32 ….
27. Which term of the AP : 21, 18, 15, . . . is – 81? Is any term 0?
28. How many three-digit numbers are divisible by 7?
29. Which term is the first negative term AP 112, 107, 102, 97?
30. Two APs have the same common difference. The difference between their 100th terms is 100, what
is the difference between their 1000th terms?
31. The 17th term of an AP exceeds its 10th term by 7. Find the common difference.
32. Find the 20th term from the last term of the AP : 3, 8, 13, . . ., 253.
33. How many terms of the AP : 24, 21, 18, . . . must be taken so that their sum is 78?
34. Find the sum of first 24 terms of the list of numbers whose 𝑛 term is given by 𝑎 = 3𝑛 − 2
35. Find the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ … . . +50 + 49 + 48 + 47 + ⋯ … … + 2 + 1
36. Find the mean of first n (i)natural number (ii) Odd numbers (iii) Even number
37. What is the mean of the series: 5+8+11+14+………………….+122.
38. The sum of the first 8 terms of an AP is 100, and the sum of the first 16 terms is 352. Find the first
term and common difference.
39. In an AP, the sum of the first 6 terms is 51, and the 12th term is three times the 4th term. Find the
first term, common difference, and the sum of the first 15 terms.
40. Find the sum of the first n terms of an AP: 𝑎, 3𝑎, 5𝑎, 7𝑎, … … … … …
41. Find how many numbers are divisible by 3 and 5 between 50 and 600?
42. If the sum of 𝑛 terms of an AP is given by 3𝑛 + 5𝑛 and its 𝑚 is 164 then find the value of 𝑚.
43. How many 3-digit numbers are divisible by 11? What is their sum?
44. What is the missing term of the AP : 7 ___, ____, .
45. What is the common difference of the AP in which 𝑎 − 𝑎 = 24
46. The 17th term of an AP exceeds its 10th term by 7. Find the common difference
47. Determine the AP whose third term is 16 and the 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.
48. : If the sum of the first 14 terms of an AP is 1050 and its first term is 10, find the 20th term.
49. In an AP The sum of first 10 terms is −150 and the sum of its next ten terms is −550 find AP
50. In an AP The sum of first 10 terms is −80 and the sum of its next ten terms is −280 find AP
51. The ratio of 5𝑡ℎ term and 3𝑟𝑑 term of an AP is 2:5. Find the ratio of the 15th and 7th term.
Application-Based Questions on Arithmetic Progression (Class 10 NCERT Mathematics)
1. A person saves ₹100 in the first month, ₹150 in the second month, ₹200 in the third month, and so on,
increasing the savings by ₹50 each month.
(a) How much will the person save in the 10th month?
(b) What will be the total savings after 12 months?
2. In an auditorium, the number of seats in each row forms an AP. The first row has 20 seats, the second
row has 23 seats, and the third row has 26 seats.
(a) How many seats are there in the 15th row?
(b) If there are 20 rows in total, find the total number of seats in the auditorium.
3. A gardener plants trees in a straight line, with the distance between consecutive trees increasing by 0.5
meters. The distance between the first and second tree is 1 meter.
(a) What is the distance between the 10th and 11th tree?
(b) Find the total distance covered from the first tree to the 15th tree.
4. An employee’s salary increases by ₹2000 every year. In the first year, the salary is ₹25,000.
(a) What will be the salary in the 8th year?
(b) Find the total salary earned by the employee over 10 years.
5. A water tank is drained such that the volume of water removed each hour forms an AP. The first hour
removes 500 liters, the second hour removes 450 liters, and the third hour removes 400 liters.
(a) How much water is removed in the 7th hour?
(b) Find the total volume of water removed in the first 10 hours.
6. In a flower bed, there are 23 rose plants in the first row, 21 in the second, 19 in
the third, and so on. There are 5 rose plants in the last row. How many rows are
there in the flower bed? Find total number of flowers.
7. 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 (iv) Total Production
8. A man repays a loan of ₹65,000 by paying ₹400 in the first month and then increasing the payment by
₹300 every month. How long will it take for him to clear the loan?
9. A sum of ₹ 1000 is invested at 8% simple interest per year. Calculate the interest at the end of each year.
Do these interests form an AP? If so, find the interest at the end of 30 years making use of this fact.
10. 200 logs are stacked in the following manner: 20 logs in the bottom row, 19 in the next row, 18 in the
row next to it and so on. In how many rows are the 200 logs placed and how many logs are in the top
row?
11. The houses of a row are numbered consecutively from 1 to 49. Show that there is a value of x such that
the sum of the numbers of the houses preceding the house numbered x is equal to the sum of the
numbers of the houses following it. Find this value of x.
12. A sum of ₹ 700 is to be used to give seven cash prizes to students of a school for their overall academic
performance. If each prize is ₹ 20 less than its preceding prize, find the value of each of the prizes.
13. Jaspal Singh repays his total loan of Rs 118000 by paying every month starting with the first instalment
of Rs 1000. If he increases the instalment by Rs 100 every month, what amount will be paid by him in
the 30th instalment? What amount of loan does he still have to pay after the 30th instalment?
HOTS Questions
1. The sum of the first three terms of an AP is 33. If the product of the first and the third term exceeds the
second term by 29, find the AP.
2. If the 9th term of an AP is zero, prove that its 29th term is twice its 19th term.
3. How many numbers lie between 10 and 300, which when divided by 4 leave a remainder 3?
4. Split 207 into three parts such that these are in AP and the product of the two smaller parts is 4623.
5. Determine k so that k2 + 4k + 8, 2k2 + 3k + 6, 3k2+ 4k + 4 are three consecutive terms of an AP.
6. Find the sum of all the 11 terms of an AP whose middle most term is 30.
7. Find the sum of the integers between 100 and 200 that are
(i) divisible by 9 (ii) not divisible by 9
8. Solve the equation: 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 +...+ x =287
9. Solve the equation – 4 + (–1) + 2 +...+ x = 437
10. The sum of four consecutive numbers in an AP is 32 and the ratio of the product of the first and the last
terms to the product of the two middle terms is 7 : 15. Find the numbers.
11. If m times the 𝑚 term is equal to n times the 𝑛 term of an AP then prove that (𝑚 + 𝑛) of
the AP is zero.
12. If 𝑛 term of an AP is and 𝑚 term of an AP is then show that (𝑚𝑛) term is 1.
13. If 𝑛 term of an AP is and 𝑚 term of an AP is then find the sum of first (𝑚𝑛) term.
14. In a given A.P. If the Pth term is q and qth term is p then show that n th term is p+q−n.
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