[ SM. ST.

PETER TELIPOK ]

[ LEE CHIONG TEE ]

[ ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS 3472 ]

ARITHMETIC PROGRESSIONS [ EXTRA EXERCISES ]

1

Given sequence 3, 9, 18, 54, . Determine whether the sequence is an arithmetic progression.
(Ans : not an arithmetic progression)
[2 marks]

Given that the first term and the common difference of an arithmetic progression are 5 and 2 respectively.
State the first three terms in this progression.
(Ans : 5, 3, 1)
[2 marks]

The sequence 2, 3, 8, .. is an arithmetic progression. Find the twelfth term of the progression.
(Ans : 53)
[2 marks]

If the first term of an arithmetic progression is 17 and the common difference is 2, determine the term of this
progression whose value is 93.
(Ans : 39)
[3 marks]

Given an arithmetic progression 5, 7, 9, . Find the number of terms between 53 and 153 in this
progression.
(Ans : 49)
[3 marks]

If the first two terms of an arithmetic progression is 13 and 19. Determine which term of the progression first
exceeds 207.
(Ans : 34)
[3 marks]

Find the sum of the first 16 terms in the arithmetic progression 2, 1, 4, ..

The sum to n terms of the arithmetic progression 8, 10, 12, . is 144. Find the value of n.
(Ans : 9)
[3 marks]

Sequence 13, 10, 7, .., 128, 131, is an arithmetic progression. Find the sum of all the terms in this
progression.
(Ans : 2891)
[3 marks]

10

Find the sum of all the integers between 3 and 205. Hence, calculate the sum of these integers that are not
multiples of 7.
(Ans : 20904, 17859)
[4 marks]

11

Given an arithmetic progression 7, 3, 1, . Find the sum of the second five terms.
(Ans : 105)

(Ans : 328)

[2 marks]

[3 marks]

12

The first three terms of an arithmetic are x, 2x + y, and 9x y. The sum of these three terms is 60. Find the
values of x and y.
(Ans : x = 5, y = 10)
[4 marks]

13

The nth term of an arithmetic progression is given by Tn = 5 2n. Find the seventh term of the progression.
(Ans : 9)
[2 marks]

14

The nth term, Tn, of an arithmetic progression is given by 4n + 3. Find the sum of the first eight terms.
(Ans : 168)
[3 marks]

15

The sum of the first n term of a arithmetic progression is given by S n =

of the progression.

(Ans : 57)

1
(5n 2 n) . Find the twelfth term
2
[3 marks]

[ SM. ST. PETER TELIPOK ]

[ LEE CHIONG TEE ]

[ ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS 3472 ]

16

Given 18, x, y, z, 2 are the first five terms in an arithmetic progression. Find the values of x, y and z.
(Ans : x = 14, y = 10, z = 6)
[4 marks]

17

If the fifth and the eighth terms of an arithmetic progression are 31 and 19 respectively. Find the last term of
the progression that has a value that exceeds 500.
(Ans : 497)
[4 marks]

18

An arithmetic progression has 14 terms. The sum of the odd terms is 140, and the sum of the even terms is
161. Find the first term and the common difference of the progression.
(Ans : a = 2, d = 3 )
[4 marks]

19

The seventh term of an arithmetic progression is 12. The tenth term of the progression is greater than second
term by 8. Find
(a)

the first term and the common difference of the progression,

(b)

the first term which is greater than 400.

(Ans : 401)

(Ans : a = 6, d = 1 )
[4 marks]

20

In an arithmetic progression, the 9 th term is equal to the sum of the first 4 terms. Given that the first term of
the progression is 2, find the sum of the first 10 terms begin from the 12th term. (Ans : 485)
[3 marks]

21

The sum of the first 12 terms of an arithmetic progression is 300, and the common difference of the
progression is 4. Find the sum of the first 40 terms of the progression.
(Ans : 3240)
[4 marks]

22

The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are p 5, p 3, 2p 15. If the sum of the first n term of
the progression is 180, find the value of n.
(Ans : 10)
[4 marks]

23

The sum of the first 10 terms of an arithmetic progression is 105, and the sum of the next 10 terms afterward
is 405. Find the first term and the common difference of the progression.
(Ans : a = 3, d = 3)
[4 marks]

24

In an arithmetic progression, the sum of the first n terms is 365, and the sum of the first 2n terms is 1330. If
1
the common difference of the progression 1 , find the value of n and the first term of the progression.
2
(Ans : n = 20, a = 4 )
[4 marks]

25

In a test of a car runway in a factory, a tester drives 40 m in the first minute, 100 m in the second minutes, and
its distance increase constantly by 60 m every subsequent minute. At which minute, the distance he covered is
580 m.
(Ans : 10)
[3 marks]

26

Nelly who had found employment is saving up RM30 in the first month. For each of the subsequent months,
she saved RM35, RM40, .., and so on. Find the number of years that it would take for Nelly to save
RM325.
(Ans : 5 years)
[3 marks]

27

The perimeter of a hexagon is 105 cm. The lengths of its sides form an arithmetic progression. Given that the
length of the longest side is six time the length of the shortest side. Find the lengths of its sides.
(Ans : 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30)
[3 marks]

28

In a running competition of 20 km, the participants have to run 50 times round the running track. A participant
spent 1 minute 20 seconds to complete the first round, and the time of subsequent round increased 10 second
over the time of the preceding round, until he finished the running. Find the time he spent to finish the
running.
(Ans : 16250 seconds / 4 hours 30 minutes 50 seconds)
[3 marks]

[ SM. ST. PETER TELIPOK ]

[ LEE CHIONG TEE ]

[ ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS 3472 ]

29

A cylindrical container is fully filled with water and the height of the cylinder is h cm. Because of a small
leakage at the bottom end , the water level is decreasing 2 cms 1 in the 1st second, 1.8 cms1 in the
2nd second, 1.6 cms1 in the 3rd second, and so on, until the water in the container is empty. Find the value
of h.
(Ans : 11)
[4 marks]

30

A wire of length 6 m is cut into 25 pieces. The length of each piece is 1 cm longer than the length of its
previous one. Find

31

32

(a)

the lengths of the longest piece and the shortest piece,

(b)

the minimum pieces have to take such that the sum of its length is greater than the sum of the length of
the remainder pieces.
(Ans : 16)
[4 marks]

(a)

the value of n,

(b)

the length of the second longest piece.

(Ans : 10)

[4 marks]
(Ans : 29)

(Ans : 12)

[4 marks]

(Ans : 1665)

[3 marks]

A tennis ball is dropped vertically from a height of 1 m above the horizontal ground. Each time the ball
bounced, the height of the ball is 2 cm less the previous one. This process continues until the ball stop. Find
(a) the height of the ball at the 20th bounce,

(Ans : 60)

st

[3 marks]
th

(b) the distance that covered from the 1 bounce till the 20 bounce.

35

[3 marks]

A wire of length p cm is cut into 30 pieces. The length of these pieces form an arithmetic progression. Given
that the length of the longest piece is 99 cm, and the sum of the three shortest pieces is 45 cm. Find
(b) the value of p.

34

[3 marks]

A straight rod of length 185 cm is cut into n pieces. The length of these pieces form an arithmetic progression.
If the shortest and longest pieces are of lengths 5 cm and 32 cm respectively, find

(a) the length of the shortest piece,

33

(Ans : 12, 36)

(Ans : 3100)

[4 marks]

A cup of syrup is placed on the floor has attracted the ants. After 1 minute, there are 4 ants in the cup, 8 ants
after 2 minutes, 16 ants after 3 minutes, and so on.
(a)

Show that the number of ants in the cup after n minutes are given by 4 (2)n 1.

[3 marks]

(b)

After how many minutes, there are 4096 ants in the cup ?

[3 marks]

(Ans : 11)

A wire of length 108 cm is cut 8 pieces. Each piece is then bent to form a circle as shown below.

The difference of the diameter between the subsequent circle is 1 cm. Find
(a) the diameter of the largest circle,

(Ans : 17 cm)

(b) the number of circle that it would form is the length of the wire is 300 cm.

[4 marks]
(Ans : 16)

[3 marks]

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[ LEE CHIONG TEE ]

The diagram shows several circles such that the subsequent radius of the circle increase by 1 cm over the
preceding radius.

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[ ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS 3472 ]

j+1

j+2

(a)

Show that the circumferences of the circles form an arithmetic progression, while the areas of the ciecels
is not.
[3 marks]

(b)

Find the sum of the circumference of the first five circles.

[ Ans : 10 (j + 2) cm ]

[4 marks]

The diagram shows the position of A and B on a straight line such that the distance of AB is 60m. Particel P
moves from A to B with a initial speed of 10ms 1, and the subsequent speed increase constantly by 2 ms 1
each second. The particle Q moves with a constant speed of 8 ms1 from B to A.
60m

P 10ms

8ms

Given particles P and Q moves at the same time. Find

(a) the value of t, if particle P and Q meets after t seconds,

(Ans : 3)

[4 marks]

(b) the distance travelled by particle P from the beginning until it meets particle Q. (Ans : 36 m)

[3 marks]

38

Two particles are moves simultaneously from the both end of a straight tube with a length of 14.3 m. One of
the particle moves 51 cm in the 1 st second, 49 cm in the 2 nd second, 47 cm in the 3 rd second, and so on. The
other particle moves 30cm in the 1st second, 31 cm in the 2nd second, 32 cm in the 3rd second, and so on. Find
the time that it would take for the two particles to meet ? (Ans : 20 saat)
[6 marks]

39

A wire of length 1.4 m is bent to form several squares as shown below.

2 cm

3cm

4 cm

Given that the first square has a side of 2 cm, the second square has a side of 3 cm, the third square has a
side of 4 cm, and so on. Find
(a)

the side of the tenth square,

(Ans : 11 cm )

(b)

the area of the fifteenth square,

(c)

the number of the square that it would form.

[2 marks]
2

(Ans : 256 cm )
(Ans : 7)

[3 marks]
[3 marks]

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[ LEE CHIONG TEE ]

[ ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS 3472 ]

A wire of length n m is used to form 20 circles as shown below.

Given the radii of the circles form an arithmetic progression. Given that the smallest circle has a radius of 10
cm and the biggest circle has a circumference of 96 m. Find
(a) the radius of the 2nd circle,

(Ans : 12 m)

(b) the circumference of the tenth circle,

(c) the value of n.

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[3 marks]

(Ans : 56 m)

[2 marks]

(Ans : 1160 m)

[3 marks]

The diagram shows the arrangement of the first three right-angled triangle with a constant base, x cm, and the
measurements of the height of each subsequent triangle decrease constantly by 2 cm of its previous one.

(a)

Show that the areas of the triangles form an arithmetic progression.

(b)

Given that the sum of the area of the first five triangles is 240 cm 2, find the area, in cm 2, of the first
triangle.
(Ans : 64 cm2 )
[3 marks]

(c) Find the sum of the area of all the triangle that would form.

(Ans : 288 cm2)

[2 marks]

[3 marks]