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Sequence & series

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Q3) A square is drawn by joining the midpoints of the sides of a given square. A third square is drawn inside the
second square in the same way and this process is continued indefinitely. If side of the first square is 8 cm, the sum
of the areas of all the squares such formed (in sq.cm.)is

(a) 128 (b) 120 (c) 96 (d).None of these

Q4) If the harmonic mean between two positive numbers is to their geometric mean as 12 : 13; then the numbers
could be in the ratio (a) 12 : 13 (b) 1/12 : 1/13 (c) 4 : 9 (d) 2 : 3

Q5) Fourth term of an arithmetic progression is 8. What is the sum of the first 7 terms of the arithmetic progression?
(a) 7 (b) 64 (c) 56 (d) Cannot be determined

Q6) Along a road lie an odd number of stones placed at intervals of 10m. These stones have to be assembled around
the middle stone. A person can carry only one stone at a time. A man carried out the job starting with the stone in
the middle, carrying stones in succession, thereby covering a distance of 4.8 km. Then the number of stones is

(a) 35 (b) 15 (c) 29 (d) 31

Q7) A series S1 of five positive integers is such that the third term is half the first term and the fifth term is 20 more
than the first term. In series S2, the nth term defined as the difference between the (n+1) term and the nth term of
series S1, is an arithmetic progression with a common difference of 30.

i). First term of S1 is a. 80 b. 90 c. 100 d. 120

ii). Second term of S2 is a. 50 b. 60 c. 70 d. None of these

iii). What is the difference between second and fourth terms of S1? a. 10 b. 20 c. 30 d. 60

iv). What is the average value of the terms of series S1? a. 60 b. 70 c. 80 d. Average is not an integer

v). What is the sum of series S2? a. 10 b. 20 c. 30 d. 40

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Q10) On a straight road XY, 100 m long, five heavy stones are placed 2 m apart beginning at the end X. A worker,
starting at X, has to transport all the stones to Y, by carrying only one stone at a time. The minimum distance he has
to travel is 1. 472 m 2. 422 m 3. 744 m 4. 860 m

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Q12) A child was asked to add first few natural numbers (i.e. 1 + 2 + 3 + …) so long his patience permitted. As he
stopped, he gave the sum as 575. When the teacher declared the result wrong, the child discovered he had missed
one number in the sequence during addition. The number he missed was 1. less than 10 2. 10 3. 15 4. more than 15

Q13) The sum of 3rd and 15th elements of an arithmetic progression is equal to the sum of 6th, 11th and 13th
elements of the same progression. Then which element of the series should necessarily be equal to zero? 1. 1st 2.
9th 3. 12th 4. None of the above

Q14) The 288th term of the series a,b,b,c,c,c,d,d,d,d,e,e,e,e,e,f,f,f,f,f,f… is 1. u 2. v 3 w 4. X

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Q16) Consider the sequence of numbers a1, a2, a3, ... to infinity where a1 = 81.33 and a2 = –19 and aj = aj–1 – aj–2
for j ≥ 3. What is the sum of the first 6002 terms of this sequence? (1) –100.33 (2) –30.00 (3) 62.33 (4) 119.33

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Q21) Consider the set S = {1, 2, 3, . . ., 1000}. How many arithmetic progressions can be formed from the elements of
S that start with 1 and end with 1000 and have at least 3 elements? (1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 6 (4) 7 (5) 8

Q22) The integers 1, 2, …, 40 are written on a blackboard. The following operation is then repeated 39 times: In each
repetition, any two numbers, say a and b, currently on the blackboard are erased and a new number a + b – 1 is
written. What will be the number left on the board at the end? (1) 820 (2) 821 (3) 781 (4) 819 (5) 780

Q23) The number of common terms in the two sequences 17, 21, 25,…, 417 and 16, 21, 26,…, 466 is (1) 78 (2) 19 (3)
20 (4) 77 (5) 22

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Q28) Let an+1 = 2 an + 1 (n = 0,1,2,....) and a0 = 0 . Then u10 nearest to a) 1023 b)2047 c) 4095 d)8195

Q29) 20. Fourth term of an arithmetic progression is 8. What is the sum of the first 7 terms of the arithmetic
progression? (a) 7 (b) 64 (c) 56 (d) Cannot be determined

Q30) Consider the set S = {1, 2, 3, . . ., 1000}. How many arithmetic progressions can be formed from the elements of
S that start with 1 and end with 1000 and have at least 3 elements? A) 3 b) 4 c) 5 d) 6 e) 7

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A) 7/12 b) 5/12 c) -5/12 d) -7/12

Q33) Let a1, a2,……..a3n be an arithmetic progression with a1 = 3 and a2 = 7. If a1 + a2 + ….+a3n = 1830, then what is
the smallest positive integer m such that m (a1 + a2 + …. + an ) > 1830?

A) 8 b) 9 c) 10 d) 11

Q34) If the square of the 7th term of an arithmetic progression with positive common difference equals the product
of the 3rd and 17th terms, then the ratio of the first term to the common difference is

a) 3:4 b) 4:3 c) 2:3 d) 3:2

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a) 25/151 b) ½ c) ¼ d) 111/55

Q36) An infinite geometric progression a1, a2, a3,... has the property that an = 3(an+ l + an+2 +….) for every n ≥ 1. If
the sum a1 + a2 + a3 +….... = 32, then a5 is a) 1/32 b) 2/32 c) 3/32 d) 4/32

Q37) A set of consecutive positive integers beginning with 1 is written on the blackboard. A student came along and
erased one number. The average of the remaining numbers is 35 7/17 . What was the number erased? a. 7 b. 8 c. 9
d. None of these

Logarithm
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a) 2 b) 6 c) 7 d) none of these

Q4) If x is a real number such that log35 = log5(2 + x), then which of the following is true?

a) 0<x<3 b) x>30 c) 3<x<23 d) 23<x<30

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a) 1/3 b) 2/3 c) 5/6 d) 7/6

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a) a b) 2a c) a/2 d) root a

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