PAROCHIAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION 'IMMACULATE CONCEPTION' CAJAMARCA

Exercises on Arithmetic Progressions

Find the term indicated in 5) Find the sum of the first 19.
the following progressions términos de: 3/4; 3/2; 9/4;…
arithmetic 6)Find the sum of the first 11
1) 2, 5, 8, 11, …, a 24
1 2
terms of: 2;3; …
2)5; 1, -3, -7, …, a30 3 15
a80 7) Find the sum of the first 17.
3)1/3, 1 , 5/3, 7/3, …,
términos de: - 2; 1/4; 5/2
4)-220, -190, -160, …, a 41
STRENGTHENING EXERCISES
5)7, 15, 23, 31, …, a50 1) Obtain the term a 40 in a
6)7/2; 3 ; 5/2; …; a18 arithmetic progression, knowing

7)2/3; 7/6, 5/3;…; a 26 what a 25 =52 y r = -3

a) 1 b) 4 c) 7 d) 10 e) 13

Activity 2 2) In an arithmetic progression, we have: a 40 = 59;

Interpolate
a 27 = 33; find the first term and
3 arithmetic means between 3 and 11
the common difference.
2) 5 arithmetic means between -13 and
a) – 21 y 2 b) –19 y 2 c) – 21 y 3
-73
d) – 19 y 3 e) – 17 y 2
3) 5 arithmetic means between -81 and
3) How many multiples of 4 are there
-9
between 10 and 116?
4 arithmetic means between 5 and 12
a) 26 b) 27 c) 28 d) 29 e) 30
5) 5 arithmetic means between 3/4 and
1/8
4) In an arithmetic sequence of 30 terms, it has
6) 5 arithmetic means between -1 and 3
for the first term 200 and by sum
7) 8 arithmetic means between 1/2 and
5130. What is the value of the ratio and its
7/10
last term?
a) – 3 y 144 b) – 2 y 140 c) – 2 y
Activity 3
142
1) Find the sum of the first 20
d) – 3 y 142 e) – 2 y 144.
multiples of 7.
2) Find the sum of the first 80
5) Find the sum of the numbers
multiples of 5
odd numbers from 29 to 137.
3) Find the sum of the first 60
a) 4565 b) 4594 c) 4536
términos de: 11; 1; -9;…
d) 4702 e) 4428
4) Find the sum of the first 9
6) In an arithmetic progression of
terms of: 1/2; 1; 3/2;...
60 terms the common difference is
 equal to 5 and the sum of its terms 12)["(x + y)","(4x - 3y)","(5y + 3x)"]
It's 9150. What is the value of the term? they are three consecutive terms of
first and the term 60? a PA. The relationship between 'x' and 'y'
a) 10 y 295 b) 5 y 305 c) 0 y 305 es:
["d) 5 and 300","e) 0 and 295"]
x x x
a) = 1/3 b) = 2 c) =3
y y y
7) An arithmetic progression has
x x
33 terms and their central term d) = 5 e) = 1/4
y y
value 8. How much is the sum of the
33 terms? 13)Find the value of c2in the PA:
a) 263 b) 264 c) 265 d) 266 e) a, b, c, d, e; if it is known that: a + e =

267 20

The largest of three numbers that a) 400 b) 100 c) 20 d) 10 e)

form a progression 160

arithmetic is three times the lesser.

Which of these three is the largest? 14)How many terms of the arithmetic progression:
numbers if their product is 1296?
1 1 1
a) 15 b) 6 c) 18 d) 12 e) 21 6 ; 4 ; 2
2 2 2
They must be taken for the sum
The lesser of an angle of a
sea – 396
irregular hexagon (angles
a) 22 b) 23 c) 24 d) 24 e) 25
unequal) is 100º and the six
e) 26
angles are in PA How much does it measure?

the largest of the angles?

15) The first term of a
a) 100º b) 110º c) 120º d) 130º arithmetic progression equals -7 and the
e) 140º
the common difference is 4. Find the
term 34 and the sum of 34
The sum of the first three
first terms of the progression.
the terms of a PA are the root
a) 125 y 2006 b) 125 y 2002 c)
positive of the equation:
126 and 2006 d) 126 and 2002 e)
x 2− 17x − 84 = 0 , being the 6th 124 and 2006.
term 15. Find the ratio.
a) 6 b) 5 c) 4 d) 3 e) 2 16)In an AP it is fulfilled that the
sum of the first three terms
11) Find the sum of all the it is 6 and the sum of the cubes of the
two-digit numbers that are the first three terms are 132.
multiples of 3. Find the first term of that
a) 1662 b) 1665 c) 1668 d) progression.
1671 e) 1674. a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 7 e) 9

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 17)In an arithmetic progression, we have: a 6 + a12 =

a3 2
240 y = Find the first
a 12 5
term.
a) 10 b) 20 c) 30 d) 40 e) 50

18)Given the following progression

arithmetic a 1 , a 2 ; a 3 ; …; it is requested

2 2
a−a
3 1
calculate: 2 2
, knowing that the
a−a
4 2
sum of the first two terms
it is double the sum of the first ones
and the third.
19)"b" is the second term of
an arithmetic progression of 5
terms and the sum of these is:
10b - 5a. The first term will be:
a) a b) b – a c) 2a d) 2b – a e)
b - 2c

20) If a; a + b + 2; c + b + 4: c +
10, they are in arithmetic progression
rising, then the value of "c +
b - a is:
a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6 e) 7

21) If a and b are real numbers

positives such that:

a+2b a2 2a + b
; ; they are in
a+b 2 2 a minus b
a - b

a
arithmetic progression, find
b
a) 5 -2 b) 5 +2 c) 5 -1 d)

5 +1 e) 5

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