CH-5 ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION

SECTION-A M.C.Q[ 1 MARKS]

Q1) Two APs have the same common difference. The first term of one of these is –1 and that of the
other is – 8. Then the difference between their 4th terms is

a)- 1 b) – 9 c)- 8 d) 7

2)If the second term of an AP is 13 and its fifth term is 25, then its 7th term is

a)37 b) 33 c) 38 d) 30

3) In an A P ,if d= -4 , n= 7, an = 4 then a is

(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 20 (d) 28

4) What is the common difference of an A P in which a18 – a14 = 32

a) 8 (b) -8 (c) -4 (d) 5

5) For what value of p, are 2p+1,13,5p-3 three consecutive terms of an AP?

a) 3 b) 4 c) 6 d) 2

6) If 11 times the 11th term of an A.P. is equal to 7times its 7th term, then its 18th term will be :

(a) 7 (b) 11 (c) 18 (d) 0

7) The three terms of an AP are respectively 3y-1, 3y+5, and 5y+1. Then y equals to
(a) -3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 2
8) The number of terms of the AP 3, 7, 11, 15 ................................. so that the sum is 406 is
a) 5 b) 10 c) 12 d) 14
9) The 10th term from the end of the A.P. 4, 9,14, …, 254 is
(a) 209 (b) 205 (c) 214 (d) 213
10) If 2x, x + 10, 3x + 2 are in A.P., then x is equal to
(a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 6
11) The value of k for which the numbers x, 2x + k, 3x + 6 are in A.P. is
a)3 b) 6 c) 5 d) 4
12) Which term of the AP 72, 63, 54 ...... is 0?
a)11th b) 9th c) 10th d)8th
13) If a, b, form an A.P. with common difference d. then the value of a- 2b-c is equal to

(a) 2a + 4d (b) 0 (c) -2a- 4d (d) -2a - 3d

14) The next term of the A.P.: √7, √28, √63 is

a.√70 b)√80. C)√97. d)√112

15) If -5/7, a, 2 are consecutive terms in an Arithmetic Progression, then the value of a' is

(a) 9/7 (b) 9/14 (c) 19/7 (d) 19/14

16) If the common difference of an AP is 5, then what is a18 – a13?

(a) 5 (b) 20 (c) 25 (d) 30

17) Two APs have the same common difference. The first term of one of these is –1 and that of the
other is – 8. Then the difference between their 4th terms is

(a) –1 (b) – 8 (c) 7 (d) –9

18) If the first term of an AP is –5 and the common difference is 2, then the sum of the first 6 terms is

(a) 0 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 15

19) The sum of the first 16 terms of the AP: 10, 6, 2,... is

(a) –320 (b) 320 (c) –352 (d) –400

20) If 7 times the 7th term of an AP is equal to 11 times its 11th term, then its 18th term will be

(a) 7 (b) 11 (c) 18 (d) 0

ASSERTION REASON [1 MARKS]

1) Assertion (A): If nth term of an A.P. is 7 - 4n, then its common difference is -4.
Reason (R): Common difference of an A.P. is given by d = an - 1 - an
a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
b)Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.
c)A is true but R is false.
d)A is false but R is true.

2)Assertion (A): Common difference of an AP in which a21 - a7 = 84 is 14

Reason (R): nth term of AP is given by an = a + (n - 1)d
a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b)Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c)A is true but R is false.

d)A is false but R is true.

3) Assertion (A): The sum of series with the nth term tn = (9 5nis 220 when no. of terms n = 6.

Reason (R): Sum of first n terms in an A.P. is given by the formula: Sn = 2 n × [2a + (n - 1)d]
a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b)Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c)A is true but R is false.

d)A is false but R is true.

4) Assertion (A): Common difference of the AP -5, -1, 3, 7, ... is 4.

Reason (R): Common difference of the AP a, a + d, a + 2d, ... is given by d = 2nd term - 1st term.
a)Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

b)Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

c)A is true but R is false.

d)A is false but R is true.

SECTION-B [2 MARKS]

1) Find a and b so that the numbers a, 7, b, 23 are in A.P.

2) Find the number of terms of the A.P. : 293, 235, 27,....., 53
3) For what value of n are the nth terms of the A.P.'s : 9, 7, 5, .... and 15, 12, 9.... the same?
4) Determine the A.P. whose third term is 5 and seventh term is 9
5) Find the common difference 'd' of an A.P. whose first term is 10 and sum of the first 14 terms is
1505.

6) Which term of the A.P. 3, 15, 27, 39, ... will be 120 more than its 21st term?
7)If the 17th term of an A.P. exceeds its 10th term by 7, find the common difference.
8) Find three numbers in A.P. whose sum is 21 and their product is 231.

9) How many numbers lie between 10 and 300, which when divided by 4 leave a remainder 3.

10) The ninth term of an A.P. is equal to seven times the second term and twelfth term exceeds five
times the third term by 2. Find the first term and common difference

11) Determine the AP whose third term is 16 and the 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.

12) Find the 31st term of an A.P. whose 11th term is 38 and the 16th term is 73.

13) How many multiples of 4 lie between 10 and 250?

SECTION -C [3 MARKS]

1)How many terms are there in A.P. whose first and fifth term are -14 and 2, respectively and the last
term is 62.

2)The sum of first 15 terms of an A.P. is 750 and its first term is 15. Find its 20th term.

3) Find the sum of first 16 terms of an Arithmetic Progression whose 4th and 9th terms are - 15 and -
30 respectively.

4) If the 9th term of an AP is zero, then show that its 29th term is double of its 19th term.

5) The sum of the first n terms of an AP whose first term is 8 and the common difference is 20 is equal
to the sum of first 2n terms of another AP whose first term is – 30 and the common difference is 8.
Find n.

6) Find the 31st term of an AP whose 11th term is 38 and 16th term is 73.

7) How many three digit numbers are divisible by 7?

8) The first and the last term of an AP are 17 and 350 respectively. If the common difference is 9, how
many terms are there and what is their sum?
9) Find the sum of first 51 terms of an AP whose second and third terms are 14 and 18 respectively.
Solution:

10) If the sum of the first n terms of an AP is 4n − n2, what is the first term (that is S1)? What is the
sum of first two terms? What is the second term? Similarly find the 3rd, the10th and the nth terms.

SECTION-E [5 MARKS]

1)The 17th term of an A.P. is 5 more than twice its 8th term. If the 11th term of the A.P is 43, find
the nth term

2) The sum of 4thand 8th terms of an A.P. is 24 and the sum of the 6th and 10th terms is 44. Find the first
three terms of the A.P.

3)Rohan repays his total loan of Rs. 1,18,000 by paying every month starting with the first instalment
of Rs. 1,000. If he increase the instalment by Rs. 100 every month. what amount will be paid by him in
the 30th instalment? What amount of loan has he paid after 30th instalment?

4)The ratio of the 11th term to 17th term of an A.P. is 3 : 4. Find the ratio of 5th term to 21st term of
the same A.P. Also, find the ratio of the sum of first 5 terms to that of first 21 terms.

5)The sum of four consecutive numbers in A.P. is 32 and the ratio of the product of the first and last
terms to the product of two middle terms is 7 : 15. Find the numbers.

6)The first term of an AP is –5 and the last term is 45. If the sum of the terms of the AP is 120, then
find the number of terms and the common difference.

7)In an AP, if Sn = n (4n + 1), find the A.P

8) If the sum of first 6 terms of an AP is 36 and that of the first 16 terms is 256, find the sum of the first
10 terms.

SECTION-D [CASE BASE STUDY]

Q1) Manpreet Kaur is the national record holder for women in the shot-put discipline. Her throw of
18.86m at the Asian Grand Prix in 2017 is the biggest distance for an Indian female athlete. Keeping
her as a role model, Sanjitha is determined to earn gold in Olympics one day. Initially her throw
reached 7.56m only. Being an athlete in school, she regularly practiced both in the mornings and in the
evenings and was able to improve the distance by 9cm every week. During the special camp for 15
days, she started with 40 throws and every day kept increasing the number of throws by 12 to achieve
this remarkable progress.
I)How many throws Sanjitha practiced on 11th day of the camp?

II)What would be Sanjitha’s throw distance at the end of 6 months?

[or]

When will she be able to achieve a throw of 11.16 m?

III)How many throws did she do during the entire camp of 15 days?

Q2) India is competitive manufacturing location due to the low cost of manpower and strong technical
and engineering capabilities contributing to higher quality production runs. The production of TV sets
in a factory increases uniformly by a fixed number every year. It produced 16000 sets in 6th year and
22600 in 9th year.

I)In which year, the production is ₹ 29,200.

II)Find the production during 8th year

OR

Find the production during first 3 years.

III)Find the difference of the production during 7th year and 4th year.

Q3) Elpis Technology is a laptop manufacturer. The company works for many branded laptop
companies and also provides them with spare parts. Elpis Technology produced 6000 units in 3rd year
and 7000 units in the 7th year.
Assuming that production increases uniformly by a fixed number every year.

I)Find the production in the 1st year.

ii. Find the production in the 5th year.

OR

Find in which year 10000 units are produced?

iii. Find the total production in 7 years.

Q3) Kamla and her husband were working in a factory in Seelampur, New Delhi. During the pandemic,
they were asked to leave the job. As they have very limited resources to survive in a metro city, they
decided to go back to their hometown in Himachal Pradesh. After a few months of struggle, they
thought to grow roses in their fields and sell them to local vendors as roses have been always in
demand. Their business started growing up and they hired many workers to manage their garden and
do packaging of the flowers.

In their garden bed, there are 23 rose plants in the first row, 21 are in the 2nd , 19 in 3rd row and so
on. There are 5 plants in the last row.

I)How many rows are there of rose plants?

ii.) Also, find the total number of rose plants in the garden.

OR

If total number of plants are 80 in the garden, then find number of rows?

iii). How many plants are there in 6th row

Q4) Students of a school thought of planting trees in and around the school to reduce air pollution. It
was decided that the number of trees, that each section of each class will plant, will be the same as the
class, in which they are studying, e.g., a section of class I will plant 1 tree, a section of class II will plant
2 trees and so on till class XII. There are three sections of each class.
I)Find total number of trees planted by primary 1 to 5 class students?

ii) Find the total number of trees planted by the students of the school.

OR

Find the total no of trees planted by class 12th students.

iii) Find the total number of trees planted by class 10th student.

Q5) A school auditorium has to be constructed with a capacity of 2000 people. The chairs in the
auditorium are arranged in a concave shape facing towards the stage in such a way that each
succeeding row has 5 seats more than the previous one.

i)If the first row has 15 seats, then how many seats will be there in 12th row? 1

(ii) If there are 15 rows in the auditorium, then how many seats will be there in the middle row? 1

(iii) If total 1875 guests were there in the auditorium for a particular event, then how many rows will
be needed to make all of them sit?

OR

If total 1250 guests were there in the auditorium for a particular event, then how many rows will be
left blank out of total 30 rows?
Q6) The students of a school decided to beautify the school on an annual day by fixing colourful flags
on the straight passage of the school. They have 27 flags to be fixed at intervals of every 2 metre. The
flags are stored at the position of the middlemost flag. Ruchi was given the responsibility of placing the
flags. Ruchi kept her books where the flags were stored. She could carry only one flag at a time

I)How much distance did she cover in pacing 6 flags on either side of center point?

ii) Represent above information in Arithmetic progression OR What is the maximum distance she
travelled carrying a flag?

OR

What is the maximum distance she travelled carrying a flag?

Iii)How much distance did she cover in completing this job and returning to collect her books?