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The document contains arithmetic sequence and series word problems. Some key problems include: - A sequence with terms -11, -7, -3 has a kth term of 169. The value of k is found to be 4. - An arithmetic series has first term 6, common difference 5, and 20 terms. Expressions are given for the nth term, last term, and sum of all terms. - An arithmetic progression has 1st term -10, 15th term 11, and last term 41. The sum of all terms is found. - An arithmetic sequence has first term 2 and last term 149. The 10th term, number of terms, and sum of odd numbers between

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The document contains arithmetic sequence and series word problems. Some key problems include: - A sequence with terms -11, -7, -3 has a kth term of 169. The value of k is found to be 4. - An arithmetic series has first term 6, common difference 5, and 20 terms. Expressions are given for the nth term, last term, and sum of all terms. - An arithmetic progression has 1st term -10, 15th term 11, and last term 41. The sum of all terms is found. - An arithmetic sequence has first term 2 and last term 149. The 10th term, number of terms, and sum of odd numbers between

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Sequence challeng 4 new syllabus

9) Here are the first three terms of an arithmetic sequence:

-11 -7 -3

The kth term of this sequence is 169

Find the value of k.

46
k= …………………..

(4)
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11) The first term of an arithmetic series is 6

The common difference of the series is 5

The series has 20 terms.

a) Find an expression, in terms of n, for the nth term of the series.

5n + 1
……………………..

(1)

b) Find the last term in the series.

……………………..

(2)

c) Find the sum of all terms in the series.

……………………..

(2)
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12) In an arithmetic progression the 1 term is -10, the 15 term is 11 and the last term is

41. Find the sum of all the terms in the progression


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15) Here is an arithmetic sequence with first term 2 and last term 149

2, 5, 8, …. 149

a) Find the 10th term of this sequence.

……………………..

(1)

b) Find the number of terms in the sequence.

……………………..

(2)

Find the sum of all the odd numbers between 2 and 190

……………………..

(3)
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18) An arithmetic progression is such that the eighth term is three times the third term.

Show that the sum of the first eight terms is four times the sum of the first four terms.
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20) In an arithmetic progression, the sum of the first n terms, denoted by Sn, is given by

Sn = 𝑛2 + 8n.

Find the first term and the common difference. [3]


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22) The first term of an arithmetic series is a.

The common difference of the series is d.

a) Write down an expression, in terms of a and d, for the sum of the first 3 terms of the

series.

……………………..

The sizes of the interior angles of triangle ABC form arithmetic sequence

b) Use your answer to part a) to show that one of the angles must be 60 ̊

……………………..

(2
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28) An athlete prepares for a race by completing a practice run on each of 11

consecutive days. On each day after the first day, he runs further than he ran on the

previous day. The lengths of his 11 practice funs form an arithmetic sequence with

first term a km and common difference d km.

He runs 9km on the 11th day, and he runs a total of 77km over the 11 days period.

Find the value of a , and the value of d.


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23 Work out the sum of the multiples of 3 between 1 and 1000


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23 The sum of the first 48 terms of an arithmetic series is 4 times the sum of the first 36

terms of the same series

Find the sum of the first 30 terms of this series


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38) An arithmetic progression has first term −12 and common difference 6. The sum of the

first n terms exceeds 3000. Calculate the least possible value of n.

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