Sum of Terms of Arithmetic Progression

Author:G Tewani
JEE Main/Advance
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Important Questions on Sum of Terms of Arithmetic Progression

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A person is to count 4500 currency notes. Let an denotes the number of notes he counts in the nth minute. If a1=a2==a10=150 and a10,a11, are in AP with common difference -2, then the time taken by him to count all notes, is

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A man saves Rs.200 in each of the first three months of his service. In each of the subsequent months, his savings increases by Rs.40 more than the savings of immediately previous month. His total saving from the start of service will be Rs.11040 after

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Let a1, a2, a3,, a49 be in A.P. such thatk=012a4k+1=416 and a9+a43=66. If a12+a22++a172=140m, then m is equal to

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If the sum of the first ten terms of the series 1352+2252+3152+42+4452+ is 165m, then m is equal to

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For a positive integer n, if the quadratic equation, x(x+1)+(x+1)(x+2)++(x+n-1)(x+n)=10n has two consecutive integral solutions, then n is equal to

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Suppose that all the terms of an arithmetic progression (A.P.) are natural numbers. If the ratio of the sum of the first seven terms to the sum of the first eleven terms is 6:11 and the seventh term lies in between 130 and 140, then the common difference of this A.P. is

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A pack contains n cards numbered from 1 to n. Two consecutive numbered cards are removed from the pack and the sum of the numbers on the remaining cards is 1224. If the smaller of the numbers on the removed cards is k, then k-20 =             .

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Let a, b, cR. Iffx=ax2+bx+c is such that a+b+c=3 and fx+y=fx+fy+xy,x,yR, then n=110fn is equal to

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If the sum of n terms of an A.P., is given by Sn=a+bn+cn2, where a,b,c  are independent of n, then

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Statement 1: The sum of the series 1+1+2+4+4+6+9+9+12+16+...+361+380+400 is 8000.

Statement 2: k=1nk3-k-13=n3, for any natural number n.

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If a1,a2,...,an are in A.P. with common difference d0, then the sum of the series  sind sec a1 sec a2+sec a2 sec a3+...+ sec an-1 sec an is

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If the sum of n terms of an A.P. is cnn-1, where c0, then the sum of the squares of these terms is

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If a1,a2,a3,...,a2n+1 are in A.P., then a2n+1-a1a2n+1+a1+a2n-a2a2n+a2+...+an+2-anan+2+an is equal to

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Concentric circles of radii 1,2,3,...,100 cm are drawn. The interior of the smallest circle is coloured red and the angular regions are coloured alternately green and red, so that no two adjacent regions are of the same colour. Then, the total area to the green regions in sq. cm is equal

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Let a1,a2,a3,.... be terms of an A.P. If a1+a2+...+apa1+a2+...+aq=p2q2,pq, then a6a21equals

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The first term of an arithmetic progression is 1 and the sum of the first nine terms is 369. The first and the ninth term of a geometric progression coincide with the first and the ninth terms of the arithmetic progression. The value of the seventh term of the geometric progression is

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The number of terms of an A.P., is even; the sum of the odd terms is 24, and of the even terms is 30, and the last term exceeds the first by 212, then the number of terms in the series is

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If Sn denotes the sum of first n terms of an A.P. and S3n-Sn-1S2n-S2n-1=31 ,then the value of n is

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In an A.P. of which a is the first term, if the sum of the first p terms is zero, then the sum of the next q terms is

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If the sum of m terms of an A.P., is the same as the sum of its n terms, then the sum of its m+n terms is