Arithmetic Sequences

June 12, 2019

On observing the arrangement of numbers 1, 3, 5, 7 · · · we realise the facts —

These are odd numbers . The arrangement starts from 1 and adding 2 repatedly. One
of these rules help us to understand this arrangement. The arrangement of numbers
according to a rule is called number sequence .
1, 3, 5, 7 · · · is the sequence of odd numbers or the sequence of numbers starting from
1 and adding 2 repeatedly.
All numerical sequences are generated from natural numbers 1, 2, 3 · · · .

Worksheet 1

1. In the sequence 1, 4, 9, 16 · · ·

a) Write next three terms of this sequence

b) What is its 10 th term ?

2. In the sequence 1, 8, 27, 64 · · ·

a) Write the next three terms of this sequence

b) What is its 10 th term ?

3. Observe the sequence 3, 7, 11 · · ·

a) Write the next two more terms of this equence

b) Describe this sequencs in your own words

4. Write the sequence of numbers having 2 in ones’ place . Which is the smallest
three digit term of this sequence ?

5. Write the sequence of numbers having 1 or 6 in its ones’ place.Describe this

sequence in other words also
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We are well aware of polygons . Polygons are closed figures with sides straight lines. The number
of sides and angle sum are related . If a polygon has n sides its angle sum will be (n − 2) × 180◦ .
The exterior angle sum of any polygon will be 360◦ .The triangle is the polygon with minimum number of
sides.So we start writing the sequence of regular polygons from triangles .
Worksheet 2
1. In the sequence of regular polygons with sides 3, 4, 5 · · ·
a) Write the sequence of the sum of the inner angles
b) What is the term in the 12 th position in the sequence of inner angle sums ?
c) Write the sequence of the sum of outer angles
d) Write the sequence of one interior angle
e) Write the sequence of one exterior angle
2. Write the sequence of numbers
a) Leaving the remainder 3 on dividing by 5.
b) Which is the largest two digit term of this sequence ?
3. Look at the sequence of squares formed by match sticks

a) Write the sequence of number of match sticks

b) Write three more terms of this sequence by observing the rule which makes the sequence

4. ( Home work) A tank contains 1000 litres of water in the beginnig. It flows out at the rate of 5
litres per second.
a) How many litres of water left in the tank after each second?
b) Write their numbers as a sequence
5. ( Home Work) 17 , 27 , 3
7
· · · is a sequence of numbers
a) Which is the first integer term of this sequence ?
b) In which position of the sequence the number 2 comes as a term?
c) Is 7 a term of this sequence ? If it is a term , what will be its position in the sequence ?
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Algebra of Sequences
All numerical sequences are generated from natural numbers. The relation between the
terms of the sequence and natural numbers can be expressed algebrically.
This can be explained with an example.

1, 4, 9, 16, 25 · · ·

This is the sequence of square numbers. Each term of this sequence is related to the
natural numbers as —

1 = 12 , 4 = 22 , 9 = 32 , 16 = 42 · · ·

The n th term of this sequence is n2 . We write xn = n2 . This is the algebraic form

of the sequence of square numbers. Some simple cases are given in the worksheet 3

Worksheet 3

1. 1, 2, 3 · · · is the sequence of natural numbers .

a) Write a sequence of numbers obtained by multiplying each natural number

by 3 and add 1 to the product.
b) What is the n th term of this sequence ?

2. Look at the sequence 2, 5, 10, 17 · · ·

2 = 12 + 1, 5 = 22 + 1, 10 = 32 + 1 · · ·

a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence .

b) What is the 10 th term of this sequence ?

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 3. What is the algebraic form of the sequence 15 , 25 , 35 · · · ? At what position in the
sequence 1 comes as a term ?

4. This is a sequence of triangles formed by match sticks.

A numerical sequence can be made from this by counting number of match sticks
in each term . It is 3, 5, 7, 9 · · ·
When we observe this sequence it is found that x1 = 3, x2 = 3 + 1 × 2, x3 =
3 + 2 × 2···

a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence

b) How many match sticks are used make 20 th term of the sequence ?

5. The algebraic form of a sequence is 13 n + 5.

a) At what position of this sequence the first integer term occurs.

b) Which is the first integer term of this sequence ?
b) Write the integer terms of this sequence as another sequence .
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Arithmetic Sequences
We can make numerical sequences from the following situations .
A sequence got by starting with any number and adding a fixed number repaetedly is
called arithmetic sequence
The fixed number which is adding repeatedly is called common difference .
Worksheet 4
1. Equilateral triangles of sides 2cm, 4cm, 6cm · · · are drawn as a sequence
a) Write the sequence of perimeters
b) Write three more terms of this sequence
c) Write the sequence of its altitudes
2. Squares of sides 1cm , 2cm, 3cm · · · are drawn as a sequence.
a) Write the sequence of perimeters
b) Describe this sequence of perimeters in other words
c) Write the sequence of diagonals and describe it in other words
3. Look at the sequence given below
2, 7, 12, 17 · · ·
This sequence is obtained by taking natural numbers which leaves the remainder
2 on dividing by 5.
a) Describe this sequence in two other ways
b) Find the algebraic form of this sequence
4. Make groups of natural numbers as follows
a) (1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6), (7, 8) · · ·
Add the numbers in each group and write the sum as a sequence
b) (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9) · · ·
Add the numbers in each group and write the sum as a sequence
c) (1, 2, 3, 4), (5, 6, 7, 8), (9, 10, 11, 12) · · ·
Add the numbers in each group and write the sum as a sequence
d) Observe the terms of these sequences and describe them in another way
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Arithmetic Sequences
In the fourth worksheet we have discussed the development of arithmetic sequences
from various situations. These sequences are listed below
• 6, 12, 18 · · ·
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• 3, 2 3, 3 3 · · ·
• 4, 8, 12 · · ·
√ √ √
• 2, 2 2, 3 2 · · ·
• 3, 7, 11, 15 · · ·
• 6, 15, 24 · · ·
• 10, 36, 52 · · ·
All these sequences are arithmetic sequences. The first number is called first term of
the sequence and the number to be added repeatedly is called common difference . The
worksheet 5 given below help us to understand arithmetic sequences.
As dicussed in the text book we can find the algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence
as follows

3, 7, 11, 15 · · ·
x1 = 3, x2 = 3 + 1 × 4, x3 = 3 + 2 × 4, x4 = 3 + 3 × 4 · · ·
xn = 3 + (n − 1) × 4
xn = 3 + 4n − 4 = 4n − 1 . Without a generalization we can find the algebraic form
of an arithmetic sequence in this way.
Worksheet 5
1. Write the algebric form for each of the following sequences
a) Sequence of odd numbers
b) Sequence of natural numbers which leave the remainder 1 on dividing by 3
c) Sequence of numbers ending in 1
d) Sequence of natural numbers ending in 1 or 6

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 2. See the pictures below

a) Write the number of small squares in each picture as a sequence. Write its
algebraic form
b) Write the number of large squares as a sequence and write its algebraic
form
c) Write sequence of all squares in each picture as a sequence. Write the
algebraic form

3. Look at the sequence 5, 8, 11, 14 · · ·

a) What is its first term and common difference

b) Find the algebraic form of this sequence
c) Using the algebraic form write the 10 th term of this sequence
d) Divide each term of this sequence by the common difference and comment
on the remainder

4. In the arithmetic sequence 7, 13, 19, 25 · · ·

a) Find the algebraic form of this sequence

b) Using its algebraic form find the 20 th term of this sequence
c) What should be added to the second term 13 to get the fifth term 31?
d) What is the difference between 10th term and 18 th term of this sequence
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• The difference between any two terms of an arithmetic sequence will be a multiple
of its common difference .

• If the terms of an arithmetic sequence are natural numbers ,the terms leave the
same remainder on division by the common difference .

• When a multiple of common difference is added to a term of an arithmetic sequence

we get another term of the same sequence .

Worksheet 6

1. Consider the sequence 10, 14, 18, 22 · · ·

a) What is the common difference of this sequence ?

b) What is the remainder ontained by dividing the terms by its common difference
?
c) Is 162 is a term of this sequence ?
d) What is the smallest number number added to 140 to get a term of this
sequence ?

2. The common difference of an arithmetic sequence is 5.

a) What is the difference between 10 th term and 17 th term of this sequence

?
b) Can the difference between any two terms of this sequence be 152? Explain
If 13 is a term of this sequence write another term of this sequence . Justify
your answer
d) If 3 is the first term of this sequence write its algebraic form

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3. In the staircase shown here the height of first step is 10cm and the height of each
step after it is 17.5cm

a) How high from the first step would be someone climbing up after each step
?
b) Suppose that someone climbing up from the ground. Write the sequence
of heights attained
c) Find the algebraic form of this sequence
d) How much height one can attain from 6 th step to 15 th step

4. If a, b, c are the terms of an arithmetic sequence , prove that b = a+b+c

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5. Prove that the numbers 2, 3, 5 cannot be the terms of the same arithmetic
sequence
Hint : The difference between any two terms of an√arithmetic
√ √ sequence will be a
multiple of its common difference . Assume that 2, 3, 5 are the terms of
the same arithmetic sequence .
√ √ √ √
5 − 3 = m × d, 3 − 2 = n × d
√ √
5− 3 m
√ √ =
3− 2 n
LHS is an irrational number and RHS is rational , which makes a contradiction

6. If all terms of an arithmetic sequence are natural numbers and one term is a
perfect square then the sequence includes more perfect square terms
Let n2 be a perfect square term. Add 2n + d times d to n2
n2 + (2n + d) × d = (n + d)2 . This is a perfect square term of this sequence
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We have dicussed the algebra of a sequence. The algebraic form of an arithmetic

sequence can be determined by the process given below
5, 8, 11, 14, 17 · · ·
The common difference of this sequence is 8 − 5 = 3
x1 = 5, x2 = 5 + 1 × 3, x3 = 5 + 2 × 3, x4 = 5 + 3 × 3 · · ·

xn = 5 + (n − 1) × 3 = 5 + 3n − 3 = 3n + 2
If f is the first term and d is the common difference of an arithmetic sequence
f, f + d, f + 2d, f + 3d · · ·
is the general form of an arithmetic sequence . When (n − 1) times common difference
is added to the first term we get its n th term.
xn = f + (n − 1) × d = f + dn − d = dn + (f − d)
xn = dn + (f − d)
Worksheet 7
1. 7, 10, 13 · · · is an arithmetic sequence.
a) What is the common difference of this sequence ?
b) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
c) Check whether 2020 a term of this sequence or not
d) If it is a term what will be its position in the sequence
e) What should be added to 13 th term to get 20 th term?
2. −117, −113, −109 · · · is an arithmetic sequence
a) What is the common difference of this sequence ?
b) Write the algebric form of this sequence
c) Which is the first positive term of this sequence ?
d) How many negative terms are there in this sequence ?
3. Consider the arithmetic sequences 9, 7, 5 · · · and 24, 21, 18 · · ·
a) Write the algebraic form of the sequence 9, 7, 5 · · ·
b) Write the algebraic form of the sequence 24, 21, 18 · · ·
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c) If n th term of both the sequences are equal ,find the value of n
d) Find the term which is same in both the sequences
4. Consider the natural numbers 1, 2, 3 · · ·

a) Write the sequence of natural numbers which leave the remainder 1 on

dividing by 7.
b) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
c) Which is the smallest three digit term of this sequence ?
d) Which is the largest three digit term of this sequence ?
e) How many three digit terms are there in this sequence ?

5. If the 2nd term of an arithmetic sequence is 13 and 5 th term is 25.

a) What is its common difference ?

b) Find the first term of this sequence
c) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
d) Find the 20 th term of this sequence

6. 5 times 5 th term of an arithmetic sequence is 10 times its 10 th term . What is

its 15 th term? What is the product of first 15 terms of this sequence ?
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Comprehension Question (6 Marks)

The sequence starting from a number and adding another number repeatedly is called
arithmetic sequence. Let us think about a special type of arithmetic sequence whose
common difference is twice the first term and the number of terms is equal to the number
representing first term itself. Naturally all terms are counting numbers .

4, 12, 20, 28
In this sequence d = 2f and f = n where f, d, n have usual meaning . The sum of
the terms is found to be 64 = 43 .
All arithmetic sequences have another property. The sum of the terms equdistant from
both ends are equal. This property can be used to calculate the sum of the terms of the
arithmetic sequence .
In this example 4 + 28 = 12 + 20 = 32 . So the sum is 2 × 32 = 64. These type of
arithmetic sequences will have this property always. Based on this answer the following
questions .

a) Write a sequence whose first term and number of terms 3 and common difference
twice the first term

b) Write the number 125 as the sum of 5 numbers which forms an arithmetic sequence

c) The sum numbers forming the arithmetic sequence 7, 21, 35 · · · makes the cube
of 7. How many terms are there in this sequence ?

d) Write an arithmetic sequence for calculating 63 by summing up its terms

e) Prove this property algebraically 1

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An Important Property of arithmetic sequence

As we discussed earlier arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers starting from
any number and adding another number repeatedly.
1, 3, 5, 7 · · · 19
is the sequence of odd numbers below 20. There are 10 terms in this sequence. We
can make 5 pairs of numbers as follows

(1, 19), (3, 17), (5, 15), (7, 13), (9, 11)
These pairing is done by taking terms equidistant from both ends of the sequence. Sum
of the numbers in each pair is 20 and to get the sum of all terms of this sequence is
5 × 20.
If there are odd number of terms in the sequence this pairing leave one number at the
center. That middle term will be half of the sum of numbers in the pair.

1, 3, 5, 7 · · · 21
The pairing can be done as follows
(1, 21), (3, 19), (5, 17), (7, 15), (9, 13), 11
The number 11 comes at the right end of above line is the middle term of the sequence.
It is half of 22, the sum of numbers in the pair
Worksheet 8
1. Consider the arithmetic sequence 2, 6, 10, 14 · · · 38 .
a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
b) How many terms are there in this sequence ?
c) What is the sum of 5 th and 6 th terms of this sequence ?
d) Find the sum of all terms of this sequence
2. The algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is 3n + 5 .
a) What is the common difference of this sequence ?
b) What is its first term and 30 th term ?
c) What is the sum of 15 th term and 16 th term of this sequence?
d) Find the sum of all terms of this1 sequence .
3. 10, 17, 24 · · · is an arithmetic sequence

a) Find the algebraic form of this sequence

b) What is the 16 th term of this sequence ?
c) What is the sum of 1st and 31 st term of this sequence ?
d) Find the sum of first 31 terms of this sequence

4. The sum of 10 th and 11 th terms of an arithmetic sequence is 153.

a) What is the sum of 1st and 20 th term of this sequence ?

b) Find the sum of first 20 terms of this sequence
c) If the 5 th term is 38 what is 16 th term ?
d) Find the common difference of this sequence
e) Write the algebraic form of this sequence

5. The fifth term of an arithmetic sequence is 38 and ninth term is 66.

a) What is the common difference of this arithmetic sequence ?

b) What is the first term of this sequence ?
c) Find the algebraic form of this sequence
d) What is the sum of first and thirteenth term of this sequence?
g) What is the sum of first 38 terms of this sequence ?
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Worksheet 10
1. The algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is 3n + 7.
a) What is the common difference of this arithmetic sequence?
b) What is the difference between 20th term and 27 th term of this sequence
?
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2. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 3 and common difference is 6

a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence

b) What position in the sequence 1 become a term ?
c) Prove that this sequence contains all natural numbers
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3. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 3 and common difference 23 .
a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
b) Suggest suitable values for n which gives all odd numbers as terms
c) Which term of this sequence is 99 ?
d) Prove that this sequence contains no even numbers
4. In the arithmetic sequence 4, 7, 10 · · ·
a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
b) Prove that the squares of all the terms of this arithmetic sequence belong
to the sequence .
5. 11 14 17
8 , 8 , 8 · · · is an arithmetic sequence .
a) What is the common difference of this sequence ?
b) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
c) Which is the first integer term of this sequence ?
d) Write the sequence of integer terms of this sequence
e) Find the algebraic form of the sequence formed by integral terms
g) Find the 20 th integer term of this sequence
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Let us consider three consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence.If the middle

term is x and the common difference is d, the terms will be x − d, x, x + d .The five
consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence can be taken as x − 2d, x − d, x, x +
d, x + 2d.
The angles of a right angled triangle are in an arithmetic sequence. Find the angles.
The angles are x − d, x, x + d . The angle sum x − d + x + x + d = 180◦ .
3x = 180, x = 60. The largest angle x + d = 90, 60 + d = 90, d = 30 . The angles
are 60 − 30, 60, 60 + 30 = 30, 60, 90
Worksheet 11
1. The sum three consecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence is 45.
a) What is the middle term of these three terms ?
b) If the common difference of this sequence is 3 , write these three terms
c) If the largest among them is the fifth term what is its first term?
d) Write the algebraic form of this sequence and find its 20 th term
2. The sum of the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence is 30.
a) What is the middle term of this sequence ?
b) If the common difference is 4 what are these five terms?
c) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
d) How many terms are there in this sequence below 100?
3. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 1 and the sum of the first four terms
is 100.
a) What is the sum of first and fourth terms of this sequence ?
b) What is the sum of second and third terms of this sequence ?
c) What is the fourth term of this sequence ?
d) Find the common difference of this sequence
e) Write the these four trems
4. Write four arithmetic sequences with 100 as the sum of first four terms
5. Find the first three terms of an arithmetic sequence with first term 30 and sum
of the first three terms is 300 1
6. Find the first three terms of an arithmetic sequence with first term 30 and sum
of the first four terms is 300
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Recall that the sum of the terms equidistant from both ends of an arithmetic sequence
are equal. This can be used to calculate the sum of a definite number of terms of an
arithmetic sequence. This can be explained with an example.

7, 11, 15, 19 · · · 179

Based on this arithmetic sequence some questions should be answered.

a) What is the first term and common difference of this sequence ?

b) Write the algebraic form of this sequence

c) How many terms are there in this sequence ?

d) Calculate the sum of the terms of this sequence

Answers

a) f = 7, d = 11 − 7 = 4

b) xn = dn + (f − d) = 4n + 3

c) Let there be n terms in this sequence and its n th term is 179.

4n + 3 = 179, 4n = 176, n = 44

d) On pairing from both ends we get 22 pairs having the sum 186 . The sum of the
terms = 186 × 22 = 4092

By proper discussions we can generalize —

Ifx1 is the first term and xn is the n th term , sum of the terms is = (x1 + xn ) × n
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 Worksheet 12

1. 13, 18, 23 · · · is an arithmetic sequence

a) Write the common difference of this sequence

b) Find the algebraic form of this arithmetic sequence
c) Find the 30 th term of this sequence
d) Calcualte the sum of first 30 terms of this sequence.

2. The algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is 6n + 1.

a) Find the first term of this sequence

b) Find the expression for the sum of the first n terms of this sequence
c) Using this calculate the sum of first 20 terms of the sequence
d) Calculate the sum of terms from 10 th to 20 th of this sequence

3. The angles of a pentagon are in arithmetic sequence.

a) Find the angle which comes as the middle term of this sequence
b) If the smallest angle of this pentagon is 40◦ what will be the largest angle
c) Prove that the smallest angle is greater than 36◦

4. The sum of the first n terms of an arithmetic sequence is 5n2 + 6n.

a) Find the first term of this sequence

b) Find the common difference of this sequence
c) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
d) Calculate the difference between the sum of first 10 and the sum of next
10 terms of this sequence

5. Sum of the first 5 terms of an arithmetic sequence is 150. The sum of the first
10 terms is 550

a) Find the third term of this sequence

b) What is the sum of fifth and sixth terms
c) what is the sum of first and tenth terms
d) What is the eighth term of this sequence
e) Write the first three terms of this sequence
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The process of calculating the sum of first n natural numbers , the sum of first n
even numbers and the sum of first n odd numbers are discussed in this section.

• The sum of first n natural numbers = n

2 × (n + 1)
• The sum of first n even numbers = n(n + 1)
• The sum of first n odd numbers = n2
• In an arithmetic sequence having algebraic form an + b , the sum of first n terms
= a(1 + 2 + 3 · · · + n) + nb = a × n2 (n + 1) + nb

Worksheet 13(A)

a) Find the sum of first 20 natural numbers

b) Find the sum of first 20 even numbers
c) Find the sum of first 20 odd numbers
d) Find the sum of natural numbers from 20 to 50
e) How many consecutive odd numbers from 1 makes the sum 625

Worksheet 13(B)
a) Find the sum of first 100 natural numbers
b) What is the difference between the sum of the first 10 even numbers and
the sum of first 10 odd numbers
c) Consider the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15 · · · . This is the sequence of triangular
numbers .
1 = 1, 3 = 1 + 2, 6 = 1 + 2 + 3, 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 · · ·
What is the 10 th term of this sequence
d) The sum of some odd numbers beginning from 1 in the oder of odd numbers
make the sum in between 900 and 1000. How many numbers makes this
sum ?
e) Calculate the sum of first 100 even numbers

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 Worksheet 13(C)

a) Write the number of numbers in each line as a sequence

b) How many numbers are there in 30 th line ?
c) Which number comes at the right end of 30 th line ? [d)] Which number
comes at the left end of 30 th line? e)] Which number comes just below
400 in this pattern ?
f) Calculate the sum of all numbers used for making 30 lines
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The numbers 1, 3, 6, 10, 16, 21 · · · is the sequence of triangular numbers. The

algebraic form of this sequence can be be findout by the following process
1 = 1, 3 = 1 + 2, 6 = 1 + 2 + 3, 10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 · · ·
n
xn = 1 + 2 + 3 · · · + n = (n + 1)
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Worksheet 14 (A)
1. Observe the pattern given below and answer the questions

a) How many numbers are there in the 20 th line of this patteren

b) Which number comes at the right end of 20 th line ?
c) Which number comes at the left end of 20 th line ?
d) Can 91 a number at the end of a line ?
e) Which number comes just below the 10 th line
f) Find the sum of all number used to form 10 lines of this pattern

2. Answer the following questions from the pattern given below

a) Write the number of numbers in each line as a sequence

b) Write the sequence of numbers in the right end of each line
c) Which number comes at the right end of 20 th line ?
d) Which number comes at the left end of 20 th line ?
e) Find the sum of all numbers up to the end of 20 th line

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3. Answer the following questions from the pattern given below

a) Write the number of numbers in each line as a sequence

b) Write the sequence of numbers in the right end of each line
c) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
d) Which number comes at the right end of 20 th line ?
e) Which number comes at the left end of 20 th line ?
f) Find the sum of all numbers up to the end of 20 th line

4. Answer the following questions from the pattern given below

a) Write the number of numbers in each line as a sequence

b) Write the sequence of numbers in the right end of each line
c) Write the algebraic form of this sequence
d) Which number comes at the right end of 20 th line ?
e) Which number comes at the left end of 20 th line ?
f) Find the sum of all numbers up to the end of 20 th line

5. Answer the following questions from the pattern given below

The lines divide the plane into sections .No two lines are parallel and not more
than two lines passes through a point . The number of sections make a sequence
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 a) Write the sequence of sections of plane by the lines
b) 2 = 1 + 1, 4 = 1 + (1 + 2), 7 = 1 + (1 + 2 + 3) · · · .
Write the algebraic form of this sequence
c) How many sections are formed by 10 lines
d) How mant lines are needed to make 211 sections ?
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Calculate the the difference between first 20 terms and next 20

terms of the sequence 6, 10, 14 · · ·
Answer
xn = dn + (f − d) = 4n + 2
The difference of the sums
[4(21+22+23 · · ·+40)+10×2]−[4(1+2+3 · · ·+10)+20×2]
4(21 − 1) + 4(22 − 2) · · · 4(40 − 20)
20 × 80 = 1600
This process is not familiar in present class rooms but can be fol
lowed as the part of continuous evaluation.
Assignment
a) Using the property of arithmetic sequence establish a formula
to calculate the sum of the first n counting numbers
b) Using this find the sum of first 20 natural numbers
c) Find the sum of the counting numbers from 10 to 20
d) What is the difference between the sum of the first 20 terms
and the 20 terms of the sequence 6, 10, 14 · · · ( Text Book
Question)
d) Prove that the difference between the sum of first n natural
numbers and the sum of the next n natural numbers is n2
e) Prove that the difference between the sum of first n terms
and the sum of the next n terms of an arithmetic sequence is
n2 d 1
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As we discussed earlier the numbers 1, 3, 6, 10 · · · are triangular numbers. The

algebraic form of the sequence of triangular numbers is xn = n2 (n + 1).
f, f + d, f + 2d, f + 3d, f + 4d, f + 5d · · ·
represents an arithmetic sequence . We can arrange the terms of this sequence as a
pattern

In this arrangement we can see triangular numbers in its first column . This observation
help us to answer cetrain questions of this section.
Worksheet 16
1. Look at the pattern given below

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 a) What is the common difference of the sequence of numbers which makes
the pattern ?
b) Write the numbers in the left end of the pattern as a sequence
c) Write the terms of this sequence as the sum of first term4 and multiple of
3.
d) The fourth triangular number is 10. What is the fifth term of this sequence
?
e) Find the fifth triangular number and sixth term of this sequence
f) Calculate the first number in the 10 th line of this pattern
g) Write the next two lines of the pattern above and calculate first and last
numbers of the 20 th lne (TBQ)

2. Consider the arithmetic sequence 3, 5, 7, 9 · · ·

a) Write the algebraic form of this sequence

b) Find the sum of first n terms of this sequence
c) Using the sum of first n terms calculate the sum of first 20 terms of this
sequence
d) Calculate the sum of terms from 10 th to 20 th of this sequence

3. The expressions for the sum to n terms of some arithmetic sequences are given
below . Write the sequence by finding first term and common difference

n2 + 2n, 2n2 + n, n2 − 2n, 2n2 − n, n2 − n

4. Write the algebraic form of the sequences whose expression for sum to n terms
are

n2 + 2n, 2n2 + n, n2 − 2n, 2n2 − n, n2 − n

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 Arithmetic Sequences
Unit Test

27/06/2019

1. Algebraic form of an arithmetic sequence is 3n + 4.

What is the common difference of this sequence ? What is the remainder obtained
by dividing the terms by its common difference ?

2 marks

2. The algebraic expression of sum to n terms of an arithmetic sequence is n2 + n.

a) What is the first term of this sequence ?

b) Find the common difference of this sequence
c) Write the algebraic form of this sequence

3 marks

3. Consider the sequence 1, 3, 5, 7, · · · . This is an arithmetic sequence having first

term 1 and common difference 2

a) In the sequence it can be seen that

1 = 1 2 , 1 + 3 = 2 2 , 1 + 3 + 5 = 32 · · · .
What is the sum of first 10 terms ?
b) How many terms from the beginning makes the sum 900?
c) Can the sum of any 25 terms of this sequence 2020? Justify your answer
d) Prove that the sum of first n terms of this sequence is a perfect square

4 marks

4. The 6 th term of an arithmetic sequence is 24.

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 a) What is the sum of first and 11 th terms of this sequence ?
b) What is the sum of 5th and 7th term ?
c) If the second term is 0 then what is its common difference ?
d) Calculate the sum of first 11 terms of this sequence ?
e) What is the product of first 11 terms of this sequence ?

5 marks

5. Look at the sequence of triangles formed by dots .

The first figure is a dot. Second figure has 3 dots arranged in the form of a
triangle. Third figure has 6 dots in the form of a triangle
Also 1 = 1, 3 = 1 + 2, 6 = 1 + 2 + 3 · · · is a way of expanding these numbers
. The number of dots in the fourth figure will be 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10. This can
be continued logically.
Answer the following questions

a) Write the number of dots in each figure as a sequence

b) Which number comes as the sixth term of this sequence ?
c) Which is the first two digit perfect square in this sequence ?
d) The sum of two adjacent numbers in the sequence is a perfect square.
Example: 1 + 3 = 4, 3 + 6 = 9
Write 25 as the sum of two terms of this sequence
e) The algebraic form of this sequence is
xn = n(n+1)
2 . Write the tenth term of this sequence
f) Which is the largest two digit term of this sequence

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