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The exterior angles marked in each of the polygons below are in arithmetic progression.

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Minal drew one such polygon with n sides. The smallest exterior angle is 8° and each subsequent angle is 4° more than previous angle.

Find the number of sides of the polygon that Minal had drawn. Show your steps.

Important Questions on Arithmetic Progressions

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2, 18, 50, 98....

Is the above pattern in AP? Justify your answer.

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4 groups in a class were asked to come up with an arithmetic progression (AP). Shown below are their responses:

GroupArithmetic ProgressionM4,2,0,-2,....N41,38.5,36,33.5,...O-19,-21,-23,-25,...P-3,-3,-3,-3,...

Which of these groups correctly came up with an AP?

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The cylindrical bumps on top of lego blocks are called studs.

Pragun has built a solid inverted lego pyramid as shown below. The number of studs in successive floors forms an arithmetic progression. Pragun figures out that the sum of the number of studs used in the first p floors is given by 6p2-2p.

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How many studs are there in the 5th floor?

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The next number of the series 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,....... is _____.
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The sum of n terms of an A.P. is 3n2+5n, then its first term is _____.
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If pth term of an A.P. is q and its qth term is p. Show that is rth term is (p+q-r).
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Kanika was given her pocket money on 1st Jan, 2019. She puts 1 on day 1, 2 on day, 2, 3 on day 3, and continued doing so till the end of the month, from this money into her piggy bank. She also spent 204 of her pocket money, and was found that at the end of the month she still had 100 with her. If money x was her pocket money for the month, find x.