Arithmetic sequence
First Multiple choice questions
Choose the correct answer from the given ones :
Identifying arithmetic sequence
1) All the following sequences can be arithmetic except ………
a) (3 , 7 , 11 , 15 , …) b) (−11 , −15 , −19 , −23 , … )
1 1 1 1 21 16 11 6
c) (2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , … ) d) ( 5 , , ,5 ,…)
5 5
2) All the following sequences are arithmetic except ………
a) (2 n − 5) b) (43 − 7 n) c) (2n ) d) (3 n)
3) From the following sequences , the arithmetic sequence is ………
n+1
a) (Tn ) = ( n
) b) (Tn ) = ((n + 1)2 )
3 n3 −1
c) (Tn ) = (n (n + 2)) d) (Tn ) = (n2 +n+1)
4) The sequence (Tn ) is an arithmetic sequence if and only if ………
for n > 1
Tn+1
a) Tn + Tn+1 = constant. b) = constant.
Tn
1
c) Tn−1 + Tn+1 = 2 Tn d) Tn+1 − Tn = n
5) The general term of' the sequence (a , a + d , a + 2 d , …) is ………
a) d n + (d − a) b) a + n d c) a + (n + 1) d d) d n + (a − d)
6) The nth term of the arithmetic sequence (3 , 5 , 7 , …) equals ………
a) 3 n b) 2 n + 1 c) 5 n − 2 d) 2n
7) If 2 a + 1 , 5 a − 1 and 6 a + 3 are three consecutive terms of an
arithmetic sequence , then a = ………
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 5
8) If (29 , 𝑥 , … , 3𝑥 , 95) is an arithmetic sequence , then 𝑥 = ………
a) 30 b) 31 c) 32 d) 33
9) If 36 , a , 24 and b are consecutive terms of an arithmetic
sequence
, then b = ………
a) 12 b) 16 c) 18 d) 24
10) If (𝑥 , 𝑦 , 3𝑥 + 𝑦 , 𝑥 + 3𝑦 + 2 , … ) is an arithmetic sequence , then
𝑥 − 𝑦 = ………
a) −6 b) −2 c) 2 d) 6
11) The number of terms of the sequence (2 , 8 , 14 , … , 68)
equals ……… terms.
a) 6 b) 8 c) 12 d) 16
12) The last term in the arithmetic sequence whose first term = 3
and its common difference = 5 and has 25 terms equals ………
a) 113 b) 118 c) 123 d) 128
13) The tenth term in the arithmetic sequence (√3 , √12 , √27 , … )
equals ………
a) √243 b) √300 c) √363 d) √432
14) The value of the middle term of the sequence (2 , 5 , 8 , 11 , … ,
128)
is ………
a) 22 b) 43 c) 65 d) 96
15) In the arithmetic sequence (12 , 14 , 16 , …) , the order of the
term whose value 102 is ………
a) T26 b) T48 c) T46 d) T45
16) In the arithmetic sequence (22 , 20 , 18 , ...) , the order of the
term whose value equals zero is ………
a) 8 b) 10 c) 12 d) 14
17) The value of T15 from the end in the arithmetic sequence
(19 , 15 , 11 , … , − 61) equals ………
a) −8 b) −5 c) −1 d) −37
18) The value of the tenth term from the end in the arithmetic
sequence
(17 , 19 , 21 , … , 47) equals ………
a) 29 b) 31 c) 25 d) 27
19) The number of terms in an arithmetic sequence is 20 , then the
fourth term from the end is the ……… term from the beginning.
a) 15 b) 16 c) 17 d) 18
20) The order of the first term smaller than − 180 in the arithmetic
sequence (64 , 61 , 58 , …) is ………
a) 81 b) 82 c) 83 d) 84
21) The value of the first term greater than 1000 from the
arithmetic sequence (2 , 9 , 16 , …) is ………
a) 1003 b) 1004 c) 1005 d) 1006
22) The order of the first positive term in the arithmetic sequence
(−48 , −45 , −42 , … ) is ………
a) T16 b) T17 c) T18 d) T19
23) The order of the last negative term in the arithmetic sequence
(−62 , −57 , −52 , … ) is ………
a) T12 b) T13 c) T14 d) T11
24) The order of the last positive term in the sequence (28 , 25 , 22 ,
…)
is ………
a) T9 b) T10 c) T11 d) T12
25) The value of the first negative term from the arithmetic
sequence
(341 , 334 , 327 , …) equals ………
a) −4 b) −3 c) −2 d) −1
26) If (Tn ) = (2 , 5 , 8 , … , ℓ) is an arithmetic sequence whose
seventeenth term from the beginning is itself the seventeenth term
from the end
, then ℓ = ………
a) 98 b) 96 c) 101 d) 95
27) If (Tn ) is an arithmetic sequence , T3 − T5 = 6 , T4 = 16 , then
the value of the first negative term in the sequence equals ………
a) −4 b) −3 c) −2 d) −1
28) The order of the first term more than 100 in the sequence
(Tn ) = (2 + 5 n) is ………
a) 19 b) 20 c) 21 d) 22
29) The first term in an arithmetic sequence = 4 and its fifth term =
20 ,
then the sequence is ………
a) (4 , 8 , 12 , …) b) (4 , 6 , 8 , …) c) (4 , 20 , 36 , …) d) (4 , 24 , 44 , …)
30) An arithmetic sequence whose first term is 5 , Tn+1 = Tn + 3 ,
then its fifth term equals ………
a) 12 b) 20 c) 17 d) 19