Indirapuram Public School

CLASS X
ASSIGNMENT
ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION
1) If k+1, 3k and 4k+2 be any three consecutive terms of an AP, Find the value of k.
2) Find a, band c such that the following numbers are in AP:
a, 7, b, 23, c
3) Which term of an AP: 3, 8, 13, 18, …….is 78?
4) Find the number of terms in each of the AP: 7, 13, 19 ,…….205.
5) Check whether -150 is a term of the AP: 11,8,5,2……
6) Which term of the AP: 21, 18, 15, ……is -81? Also is any term 0? Give reason for your answer.
7) Justify whether it is true to say that the following are the nth term of an AP:
i) 2n-3 ii) 3n2+5 iii) 1 + n + n2
8) An AP consists of 50 terms of which 3rd term is 12 and the last term is 106. Find the 29th term.
9) If 3rd term and 9th term of an AP are 4 and -8 respectively, Which term is zero?
10) Determine the AP whose third term is 16 and the 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.
11) Determine the AP whose 5th term is 9 and the difference of the eight terms from the thirteenth term
is 20.
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12) The 26th, 11th, and the last term of an AP are 0, 3 and - 5, respectively. Find the common difference
and the number of terms.
13) The sum of 5th and 7th terms of an AP is 52 and the 10th term is 46. Find the AP.
14) If the 9th term of an AP is zero, prove that its 29th term is twice its 19th term.
15) 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 an AP.
16) Find the value of middle terms of an AP: -6, -2,2, …… 58.
17) Find the value of middle most terms of the AP: -11, -7, -3, ………49.
18) Find the 20th term from the last terms of an AP: 3, 8, 13, …., 253.
19) Find the 12th term from the end of an AP: -2, -4, -6, …… -100.
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20) Which terms of the progression 20, 192, 182, 174, ………. Is the first negative terms?
21) For what value of n, are the nth terms of two AP s: 63, 65, 67, … and 3, 10, 17, …. equals?
22) If the nth terms of two AP s: 9, 7, 5, …. And 24, 21, 18, ….. are same, find the value of n. Also
find that terms.
23) How many 3 digits numbers are divisible by 7?
24) How many numbers lie between 10 and 300, Which when divided by 4 leave a remainder 3.
25) The sum of the first three terms of an AP is 33. If the product of the first and the third terms exceed
the second term by 29, Find the AP.
26) The angles of a triangle are in AP. The greatest angle is twice the least. Find all the angles of a
triangle.
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27) Find five numbers in AP whose sum is 122 and the ratio of first to the last term is 2:3.
28) Prove that in an AP: am+n + am-n = 2am.
29) If 7 times the seventh term of an AP is equal to 11 times its eleventh term. Show that the 18th term
of the AP is zero.
30) If m times the mth terms of an AP is equal to n times the nth term, then show that (m+n)th of the AP
is zero.
31) If the pth, qth and rth term of an AP be a, b, c respectively, then prove that
p(b-c)+q(c-a)+r(a-b) = 0
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32) In a given AP if p term is q and qth term is p, then show that nth term is (p+q-n).
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33) If the mth term of an AP be 𝑛 and its nth term be 𝑚, then show that its (mn)th term is 1.
𝑎𝑛+1 + 𝑏𝑛+1
34) If is the arithmetic mean between a and b, then find the value of n.
𝑎𝑛 + 𝑏𝑛
35) Which term of the AP: -2, -7, -12, …. Will be -77? Find the sum of this AP up to the term -77.
36) Find the sum of the integers between 100 and 200 that are i) divisible by 9
ii) not divisible by 9.
37) Find the sum of:
i) Those integers between 1 and 500 which are multiple of 2 as well as 5.
ii) Those integers from 1 to 500 which are multiple of 2 as well as of 5.
iii) Those integers from 1 to 500 which are multiples 2 and 5.
38) Find the sum of all three digits numbers which are divisible by 7.
39) The sum of nth terms of an AP is 3n2 + 5n. Find the AP, hence find its 16th term.
40) In an AP, If Sn = 3n2 + 5n and ak = 164. Find the value of k.
41) Find the sums:
i) 1 + (-2) + (-5) + (-8) + ……+ (-236)
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ii) (4-𝑛) + (4-𝑛) + (4-𝑛) + ---------- upto n terms.
42) Find the sum of all 11 terms of an AP whose middle most term is 30.
43) Find the sum of last ten terms of the AP: 8, 10, 12, ……,126
44) In an AP, the sum of its first ten terms is -80 and the sum of its next ten terms is -280. Find the AP.
45) The ratio of the 11th term to the 18th tem of the AP is 2:3. Find the ratio of the 5th term to the 21st
term, and the ratio of the sum of the first five terms to the sum of the first 21 terms.
46) If the sum of the first p terms of an AP is the same as the sum of its first q terms (where p≠q), then
show that the sum of its first (p + q) terms is zero.
47) If the sum of the first m terms of an AP be n and the sum of its first n terms be m, then show that
the sum of its first (m + n) terms is – (m + n).
48) If the sums of first n, 2n, 3n terms of an AP are s1, s2, s3 respectively, show that
s3 = 3(s2- s1)
49) If the sum of m terms of an AP to the sum of n terms of an AP is m2 : n2. Prove that the ratio of its
mth and nth terms is (2m-1): (2n-1).
50) Show that the sum of an AP whose first terms is a, the second terms b and the last term is c, given
by
(𝑎+𝑐)(𝑏+𝑐−2𝑎)
S= 2(𝑏−𝑎)
51) The sums of first p, q, r terms of an AP are a, b, c respectively. Show that,
𝑎 𝑏 𝑐
(𝑞 − 𝑟) + (𝑟 − 𝑝) + (𝑝 − 𝑞) = 0
𝑝 𝑞 𝑟
52) Solve the equation: -4 + (-1) + 2 + ……. + x = 432
53) Which term of the AP: 3,7,11.15. …. Is 79? Also find the sum of 3+7+11+15 + …..+79?
54) The sum of first n terms of an AP is given by Sn = 2n2 + 3n. Find the sixteenth term of AP.