K.L.

E Society’s School
II Block Rajajinagar, Bengaluru-10

Past CBSE Examination Questions

Grade: X Topic: Arithmetic Progression Subject: Mathematics

1 Mark Questions:
1. The sum of the first ‘n’ terms of an A.P is given by S n = 2n2. Find its 17th term.
2. How many two digit numbers are divisible by 6?
3. For what value of k will k+ 9 , 2k – 1 and 2k + 7 are the consecutive terms of an A.P?
4. Which term of the A.P: 5, 2, -1, …… is – 49?
5. Find the tenth term of the sequence√2, √8 , √18 , …….
6. Find the 15th term of the A.P a – 7, a – 2, a + 3, ……..
7. Find the tenth term of an A.P whose first two terms are - 5 and 3 respectively.
8. Find the tenth term of the sequence √3 , √12 , √27 , …….
9. How many terms are there in the A.P: 2, 9, 16, ………, 261?
10. Find the sum of all even natural numbers less than 100.
11. What is the common difference of an A.P in which a21 – a7 = 84?
12. In an AP if the common difference is -4 and the seventh term is 4, then find the first term.
1 1−𝑝 1−2𝑝
13. Find the common difference of the A.P. , , ,…………
𝑝 𝑝 𝑝

14. Find the nth term of the A.P. a,3a,5a,……….

1 1−3𝑏 1−6𝑏
15. Find the common difference of the A.P. , , ,…………
3 3 3
16. If (2n + 3) is the nth term of an AP, find its common difference.
17. Find the 31st term of an AP, where 11th term is 38 and 16th term is 73.

2 Marks Questions:
1. Which term of the A.P 45, 41, 37,33,….. is the first negative term?
2. Find the number of all three-digit natural numbers which are divisible by 9.
3. The 4th term of an A.P is zero. Prove that the 25th term of the A.P is three times its 11th term.
4. If 3x + k , 2x + 9 and x + 13 are three consecutive terms of an A.P. Find k.
5. In an A.P, if S5 + S7 = 167 and S10 = 235, then find the A.P, where Sn denotes the sum of its first n
terms.
6. How many two digit numbers are divisible by 7?
7. If the sum of first n terms of an A.P is given by S n = (3n2 – n), find its first term and nth term.
8. The 6th term of an A.P is – 10 and its 10th term is -26. Determine the 15th term of the A.P.
9. Which term of the A.P 120, 116, 112,……. is the first negative term?

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10. If 8 times the 8th term of an A.P is equal to 12 times its 12th term. Show that the 20th term of the
A.P is zero.
11. Which term of the sequence is 36, 31, 26, 21, 16,………. is the first negative term?
12. The 11th term of an A.P exceeds its 14th term by 14. Find the common difference.
13. On the first day of the strike of doctors in a hospital, the attendance at its OPD was 1040 patients.
As the strike continued the attendance declined by 80 patients every day. Find from which day of
the strike the OPD would have no patients.
14. The angles of a quadrilateral are in A.P, whose common difference is 10° . Find all of its four
angles.
15. For what value of n, are the nth terms of two A.P’s 63, 65, 67,……… and 3, 10, 17,….. equal?
16. Which term of the A.P. 8, 14, 20, 26,…. will be 72 more than its 41 st term?
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17. Which term of the progression 20, 194 , 18 2 , 17 4 , …. is the first negative term?

18. Find the sum of first 8 multiples of 8.

19. If 5 times the fifth term of an A.P. is equal to 8 times the eighth term, show that its 13 th term is 0.
20. How many multiples of 4 lie between 10 and 250 ?
21. For what value of ‘k’, will the consecutive terms 2k + 1,3k + 3 and 5k – 1 form an A.P.?
22. Which terms of A.P. 3,15,27,39,……will be 120 more than its 21 st term?
23. Find the 6th term from the end of the A.P. 17,14,11,………- 40
24. Find the 20th term from the last term of the A.P. 3,8,13,…….,253
25. If 7 times the 7th term of an A.P. is equal to 11 times its 11th term, then find its 18th term.

3 Marks Questions:
1. The sum of n terms of an A.P whose common difference is 36 and first term is 5 is equal to the
sum of 2n terms of another A.P whose common difference is 5 and first term is 36. Find ‘n’.
2. The 8th term of an A.P is equal to three times its third term. If its 6 th term is 22, find the A.P
3. If the ratio of the sum of first n terms of two A.P’s is (7n + 1) : (4n + 27) , find the ratio of their
mth terms.
4. The sums of first n terms of three arithmetic progressions are S 1 , S2 and S3 respectively. The first
term of each A.P is 1 and their common differences are 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
Prove that S1 + S3 = 2S2.
5. Find the 20th term of the A.P whose 3rd term is 7 and the seventh term exceeds three times the 3 rd
term by 2. Also find the nth term (an).
6. The 13th term of an A.P is four times its 3rd term. If its fifth term is 16, then find the sum of its first
ten terms.
7. The 16th term of an A.P is five times its third term. If its 10th term is 41, then find the sum of its
first fifteen terms.
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8. In an A.P, the sum of first n terms is + . Find the 25th term.
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9. The 9th term of an A.P is equal to seven times the second term and 12 th term exceeds five times the
third term by 2. Find the first term and the common difference.
10. The 3rd term of an A.P is 7 and the 7th term exceeds three times the third term by 2. Find the sum
of its first 20 terms.
11. In an A.P the sum of its first ten terms is – 80 and the sum of its next ten terms is – 280. Find the
A.P
12. The sum of the 4th and 8th term of an A.P is 24 and the sum of 6th and 10th term is 44. Find the first
three terms of A.P.
13. The 8th term of an A.P is equal to three times its third term. If its 6 th term is 22, find the A.P.
14. The sum of first n terms of an A.P is given by (n2 + 5n) . Find the 25th term of the A.P.
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15. If the mth term of an A.P be 𝑛 and the nth term be 𝑚 then show that its (mn)th term is 1.

16. Find the sum of all multiples of 9 lying between 300 and 700.
17. If the pth term of an A.P is q and the qth term is p, prove that is nth term is (p + q – n).
18. If the 10th term of an AP is 52 and the 17th term is 20 more than the 13th term, find the A.P.
19. The first term of an A.P is 5, the last term is 45 and the sum of all its terms is 400. Find the
number of terms and the common difference of the A.P.
20. How many terms of an A.P 9, 17, 25,… must be taken to give am sum of 636?
21. Find the middle term of the A.P. 7,13,19,……,247.
22. Find the sum of all 11 terms of an A.P. whose middle term is 30.
23. If in an A.P., the sum of first m terms is n and the sum of its first n terms is m, then prove that the
sum of its first (m + n) terms is –(m + n )
24. Show that the sum of all terms of an A.P. whose first term is a, the second term is b and the last
(𝑎+𝑐)(𝑏+𝑐−2𝑎 )
term is c is equal to
2(𝑏−𝑎)

25. Solve the equation : 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 + ………+ x = 287.

26. The sum of first 6 terms of an A.P. is 42.The ratio of its 10th term to 30th term is 1:3.Find the first
and 13th terms of the A.P.
27. If the sum of first p terms of an A.P. is same as the sum of its first q terms, then show that sum of
its first (p + q) terms is 0.
28. The ratio of 11th term to 18th term of an A.P. is 2:3.Find the ratio of the 5 th term to 21stterm.Also
find the ratio of sum of the first five terms to sum of the first 21 terms.
29. If 5th term of an A.P. is zero, show that its 33rd term is four times its 12th term.

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4 Marks Questions:
1. The sum of first m terms of an A.P is 4m2 – m. If its nth term is 107, find the value of n. Also find
the 21st term of this A.P.
2. An A.P has 21 terms. The sum of 10th , 11th and 12th terms is 129 and the sum of the last 3 terms is
237. Find the A.P.
3. An arithmetic progression 5, 12, 19,……. Has 50 terms. Find its last term. Hence find the sum of
its last 15 terms.
4. Find the 60th term of the A.P 8, 10, 12,…..if it has a total of 60 terms and hence find the sum of its
last 10 terms.
5. Find the sum of all two digit numbers which are either multiples of 2 or 3.
6. The eighth term of an A.P is half its second term and the eleventh term exceeds one third of its
fourth term by 1. Find the 15th term.
7. Find the sum of all odd integers between 2 and 100 divisible by 3.
8. If the sum of the first 14 terms of an A.P is 1078 and its first term is 12, find the 20 th term.
9. The sum of n terms of an A.P whose 1st term is 5 and the common difference is 36 is equal to sum
of 2n terms of another A.P whose 1st term is 36 and common difference is 5. Find n.
14. If the ratio of the sum of the first n terms of two A.P’s is (7n + 1):(4n + 27), then find the ratio of
their 9th terms.
15. The sum of four consecutive numbers in an AP is 32 and the ratio of the product of the first and the
last term to the product of two middle terms is 7:15.Find the numbers.
16. If m times the mt hterm of an arithmetic progression is equal to n times its nth term and m≠n,show
that the (m+n)t hterm of the AP is zero.
17. The sum of the first three numbers in an AP is 18. If the product of the first and the third term is
5 times the common difference, find the three numbers
18. An A.P. consists of 50 terms of which 3rd term is 12 and last term is 106.Find the 29th term.

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