Progressions Paper 1 (2005-2010) 1.

Find the positive value of x of below sequence if the sequence is 2, x, 8 a) an arithmetic progression b) a geometric progression 2. 7, 11, 15 are the first three terms of an arithmetic progression. Find a) the common difference b) the sum of the first 30 terms after the 6th terms 3. The sum of the first nth terms of geometric progression 6, 18, 54, is 2184. Find a) The common ratio b) the value of n 4. The 8th terms of an arithmetic progression is 4+6p and the sum of the first four terms is 8p+2, where p is constant. Given d = 5, find the value of p. 8. The first three terms of a geometric progression is 25, 10, 4. Find the sum to infinity. 9. The first four terms of a geometric progression are 4, -8, 16, x Find the value of x. 10. The first four terms of an arithmetic progression are 79, 76, 73 and 70. The nth term of this progression is negative. Find the least value of n. 11. The first term in a geometric progression is 4 and the sum to infinity is 24. Find r. 12. Given the geometric progression, Find the sum to infinity. 13. The perimeters of below diagram(three square cards) form an arithmetic progression.

5. The sum of the third and the fourth term of a geometric progression is 6 and the third term is 9. Find the a, r and the sum to infinity. 6. Determine whether the sequence is an arithmetic progression or geometric progression. Give a reason for the answer. 27x, 9x, 3x,. 7. Three consecutives terms of an arithmetic progression are 10+x, 9, 3x. Find the common difference

Write down the first three terms of progression and find the common difference. 14. x, 14, 28 is the first three terms of a geometric progression. Find the value of x and the sum from 5th term to 8th term.

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Progressions Paper 1 (2005-2010) 15. is the sum of the first nth terms of an arithmetic progression. Find the sum of the first 6 terms and also find the 7th term. 16. Given .is a geometric progression and . Find the common ratio in terms of x and the positive value of x. 17) are the first three terms of an arithmetic progression. a) Express k in terms of h and b) Find the 9th term of the progression in term of h.

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