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The sum of all terms of the arithmetic progression having ten terms except for the first term, is , and except for the sixth term, . Find the third term of the progression if the sum of the first and the fifth term is equal to .
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Product of the fourth term and the fifth term of an arithmetic progression is . Division of the ninth term by the fourth term of the progression gives quotient as and the remainder as . Find the first term of the progression.

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A number of saplings are lying at a place by the side of a straight road. These are to be planted in a straight line at a distance interval of metres between two consecutive saplings. Mithilesh, the country’s greatest forester, can carry only one sapling at a time and has to move back to the original point to get the next sapling. In this manner he covers a total distance of kms. How many saplings does he plant in the process if he ends at the starting point?

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A geometric progression consists of terms. The sum of the terms occupying the odd places is and the sum of the terms occupying the even places is . Find the common ratio.

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The sum of the first ten terms of the geometric progression is and the sum of next ten terms ( through ) is . Find the common ratio.

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The first and third terms of an arithmetic progression are equal, respectively, to the first and third term of a geometric progression, and the second term of the AP exceeds the second term of the GP by . Calculate the sum of the first five terms of the arithmetic progression if its first term is equal to .

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If , then find the value of .

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is equal to:

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The interior angles of a polygon are in AP. The smallest angle is and the common difference is . Find the number of sides of the polygon.
