Board: CBSE Grade 10 Subject: Mathematics Unit: II Algebra

HWSH - 2 Date: 02.11.18

Name: Arithmetic Progressions

Grade: X Chapter No: 5 Unit Name: Algebra Subject: Math

Understanding Level
1. Determine the AP whose 3rd term is 5 and the 7th term is 9.
2. The 7th term of an AP is – 4 and its 13th term is – 16. Find the AP.
3. If the 8th term of an AP is 31 and its 15th term is 16 more than the 11th term, find the AP.
4. Check whether 51 is a term of the AP 5, 8, 11, 14, ……?
5. The 6th term of an AP is – 10 and its 10th term is – 26. Determine the 15th term of the AP.
6. The sum of 4th term and 8th term of an AP is 24 and the sum of 6th and 10th terms is 44.
Find the AP.
7. The sum of 5th term and 9th term of an AP is 72 and the sum of 7th and 12th terms is 97.
Find the AP.
8. Determine the AP whose third term is 16 and the 7th term exceeds the 5th term by 12.
9. The 17th term of an AP exceeds its 10th term by 7. Find the common difference
10. If the nth term of an AP is (5n – 2), find its first term and common difference. Also find its
19th term.
11. If 2x, x + 10, 3x + 2 are in A.P., find the value of x.
12. If x + 1, 3x and 4x + 2 are in AP, find the value of x.
13. Find the value of m so that m + 2, 4m – 6 and 3m – 2 are three consecutive terms of an
AP.
14. Find the 20th term from the last term of the AP: 3, 8, 13, . . ., 253.
15. For what value of n, are the nth terms of two APs: 63, 65, 67, . . . and 3, 10, 17, . . . equal?
16. For what value of n, are the nth terms of two APs: 13, 19, 25, . . . and 69, 68, 67, . . .
equal?
17. The sum of three numbers in AP is 21 and their product is 231. Find the numbers.
18. Divide 24 in three parts such that they are in AP and their product is 440.
19. If 5 times the 5th term of an AP is equal to 8 times its 8th term, show that the 13th term is 0.

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Board: CBSE Grade 10 Subject: Mathematics Unit: II Algebra

20. Which term of the AP 9, 12, 15, 18,…. will be 39 more than its 36th term?
21. Which term of the AP 24, 21, 18, 15, …. Is first negative term?
22. Find the sum of first 21 terms of the AP whose 2nd term is 8 and 4th term is 14.
23. Find the sum of all natural numbers less than 100 which are divisible by 6.
24. Find the number of terms of the AP 18, 15, 12, ……. so that their sum is 45. Explain the
double answer.
25. Find the number of terms of the AP 63, 60, 57, ……. so that their sum is 693. Explain the
double answer
Application Level
26. The sum of the first n terms of an AP is given by Sn = (5n2 + 2n). Find the nth term of the
AP.
27. Find the value of x for which (5x + 2), (4x – 1) and (x + 2) are in AP
28. Find the value of x for which (8x + 4), (6x – 2) and (2x + 7) are in AP
29. For what value of n, are the nth terms of two APs: 63, 65, 67, . . . and 3, 10, 17, . . . equal?
30. For what value of n, are the nth terms of two APs: 13, 19, 25, . . . and 69, 68, 67, . . .
equal?

31. If the mth term of an AP be and its nth term be then show that its (mn)th terms is 1.

32. If m times the mth term of an AP is equal to n times the nth term and m ≠ n, show that its
(m + n)th term is 0
33. A man repays a loan of Rs. 3250 by paying Rs. 20 in the first month and then increases
the payment by Rs. 15 every month. How long will it take him to clear the loan?
34. Raghav buys a shop for Rs. 1,20,000. He pays half of the amount in cash and agrees to
pay the balance in 12 annual installments of Rs. 5000 each. If the rate of interest is 12%
and he pays with the installment the interest due on the unpaid amount, find the total cost
of the shop.
35. A manufacturer of TV sets produced 600 sets in the third year and 700 sets in the seventh
year. Assuming that the production increases uniformly by a fixed number every year, find
: (i) the production in the 1st year (ii) the production in the 10th year (iii) the total
production in first 7 years.

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