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Y9 Maths HK Spring 2 The NTH Term Answers

The document provides examples of linear, quadratic, and power sequences and asks the reader to find terms, identify patterns, and determine the nth term that generates a given sequence. It contains 6 questions that involve identifying the nth terms of sequences, finding specific terms, determining which term does not belong to a sequence, and identifying the pattern in differences between quadratic sequence terms.

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Y9 Maths HK Spring 2 The NTH Term Answers

The document provides examples of linear, quadratic, and power sequences and asks the reader to find terms, identify patterns, and determine the nth term that generates a given sequence. It contains 6 questions that involve identifying the nth terms of sequences, finding specific terms, determining which term does not belong to a sequence, and identifying the pattern in differences between quadratic sequence terms.

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the nth term answers

1. Find the nth and 10th term of the following linear sequences:
a) 6, 10, 14, 18, 22… 4n+2 b) 1, 6, 11, 16, 21… 5n-4 c) 4, 6, 8, 10, 12… 2n+2
d) 13, 16, 19, 22, 25… 3n+10 e) 7, 8, 9, 10, 11… 4n+2 f) 1, 9, 17, 25, 33… 8n-7
g) 2, 11, 20, 29, 38… 9n-7 h) 5, 15, 25, 35, 45… 5n+10 i) 0, 3, 6, 9, 12… 3n-3
j) -1, 5, 11, 17, 23… 6n-7 k) -3, 7, 17, 27, 37… 10n-13 l) -10, -8, -6, -4, -2 2n-12

2. Find the nth term of the following linear sequences, these either increase by fractional amount or a negative
amount:
a) 12, 10, 8, 6, 4… -2n+14 b) 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5… 0.5n+3 c) 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0… 0.2n
d) 15, 12, 9, 6, 3… -3n+18 e) 0, -4, -8, -12, -16… -4n+4 f) 99, 98, 97, 96, 95… -n+100

3. Find the first 4 terms of each linear sequence whose nth term is:
a) 6n  2 8, 14, 20, 26 b) 3n  9 12, 15, 18, 21 c) 5n 1 4, 9, 14, 19
d) n  5 6, 7, 8, 9 e) 4n  3 1, 5, 9, 13 f) 8n 11 19, 27, 35, 43
g) 9n  6 3, 12, 21, 30 h) 5n 5,10,15,20 i) 3n  24 21,18,15,12
j) 6n  66 60,54,48,42 k) 2.5n  1 3.5,6,8.5,11 l) 7n  50 43, 36, 29, 22

4. Identify which of the terms does not belong to the sequence with nth term:
a) 5n  1 54 61 86 b) 10n  4 16 56 74
c) 2n  1 35 36 37 d) 4n  3 51 83 105
e) 11n  3 101 124 146 f) 5n  6 151 199 236
g) 2n  4 888 925 1000 h) 4n  5 156 201 705

5. Find the first 5 terms of the following quadratic sequences


b) n  1 c) n  4
2 2 2
a) n 1,4,9,16,25 2,5,10,17,26 -3,0,5,13,21
e) 2n  1 3,9,19,33,51 f) n  n 2,6,12,20,30
2 2 2
d) 2n 2,8,18,32,50
g) Look at the difference between successive terms in your quadratic sequences. What do you notice? differences
increase constant amount each time
How is this different to what you saw before with the linear sequences? linear sequences increase by same
amount each time

6. Find the first 5 terms of the following power sequence:

a) 2 n 2,4, 8, 16, 32 to do this work out the following 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25


b) Use your answer to part a) to help you match the following sequences to their nth terms.
i) 3,5,9,17,33... 2n  1
ii) 0,3, 7,15,31... 2n  1
iii) 1, 2, 4,8,16... 2n
2
iv) 6,12, 24, 48,96...  
3 2n
v) 3, 6,11, 20,37...
2n  n

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