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The document provides 25 math problems related to arithmetic progressions, geometric progressions, simple and compound interest, sequences, and other topics. The problems cover a range of skills and include finding specific terms, sums, accumulated values, and other calculations. Full solutions are provided for each problem.

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Topics: Progressions

nd
2 Review Session 3 (February 17, 2024)

Assignment Problems

Problems:

1. Find the 45th term in an A.P. where the 3rd term is 7 and the common difference
is 1/3.
Answer: 21

2. In the A.P. 0.97, 1.00, 1.03,.., which term is 5.02?


Answer: 136th

3. Find the common difference of an A.P. whose 6th term is 9 and 37th term is 54.
Answer: 45/31

4. Insert six arithmetic means between 15 and 16.5


Answer: 10.5; 6; 1.5; -3;-7.5;-12

5. Find the sum of all even integers from 10 to 380 inclusive.


Answer: 36,270

6. There are 16 rows of billiard balls in a symmetrical triangular arrangement on a


table, with 46 balls in the first row and 3 less balls in each other row than hi the
one preceding it. How many balls are on the table?
Answer: 376
7. Debtor borrows $10,000. Agrees to pay: at the end of each year for 10 years,
$1000 principal and simple interest at 3% on all principal outstanding during the
year
Answer: $11,650
8. A man invests $1000 at the beginning of each year for 20 years at 5% simple
interest. Find the accumulated value of his investments at the end of 20 years.
Answer: $30,500
9. If y = 5x+8, find the sum of the values of y corresponding to the successive
integral values x = 1, 2, 3, , 30.
Answer: 2565
10. A contractor has agreed to pay a penalty if he uses more than a speckled length
of time to finish a certain job. The penalties for excess time are $25 for the 1st day
and, thereafter, $5 more for each day than for the preceding day. If he pays a total
penalty of $4050, how many excess days did he need to finish the work?
Answer: 36

11. Find the value of x so that the three numbers form a G.P. x, 12, 36.
Answer: 4
12. Find the sum of the G.P. 4 + 2 +…..1/128.

Answer: 1023/128

13. Insert the five of geometric means between 2 and 128.


Answer: (4; 8; 16; 32; 64 ) or (-4; 8; -16; 32; -64 ) or

14. How many ancestors have you had in the twelve preceding generations if no
ancestor appears in more than one line of descent
Answer: 8190

15. In a lottery, it is agreed that the first ticket drawn will pay its owner $0.10 and each
succeeding ticket twice as much as the preceding one. Find the total amount paid
on the first 10 tickets drawn.
Answer: $102.30

16. The path of each swing, after the first, of a pendulum bob is 0.9 as long as the
preceding swing. If the first swing is 40 inches long, how far does the pendulum
travel on the first 8 swings
Answer: 227.8’’

17. In a professional golf tournament, the total prize money of $5187 is divided among
the six players with lowest scores, so that each man above the lowest receives as
much as the man below him. How much does the man with the lowest score
receive?
Answer: $3125

18. At the beginning of each year, a man invests $300 at simple interest at the rate
7%. At the end of 15 years, what is the total value of his investments if none of
them have been disturbed, and if all required interest is paid on that date?
Answer: $7020

19. A rubber ball is dropped from a height of 300 feet. On each rebound, the ball rises
one third of the height from which it last fell. What distance has the ball traveled
up to the instant the ball hits the ground for the 7th tune?
Answer: 55.339 ft.

20.
Answer: -1

21. Insert the four of harmonic means between 1/2 and 1/12 .
Answer: ¼; 1/6; 1/8; 1/10

22. Find a rational number equal to the endless repeating decimal 0.5818181…
Answer: 32/55

23. The side of a certain square is 10 inches long. A second square is drawn by
connecting the mid-points of the sides of the 1st square; a 3d square is drawn by
connecting the mid-points of the sides of the 2d square; etc., without end. Find the
sum of the areas of all the squares.
Answer: 200 sq. inch

24. Find the 20 term of Fibonacci sequence.


Answer: 6765

25. Find the 31 term of Fibonacci sequence.


Answer: 1346269
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