UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, JAMAICA

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS

COLLEGE MATHEMATICS
WORKSHEET # 6
1.

Find the first five terms of each of the following sequences with the general terms:
Tn = 3n

(a)
2.

TOPIC: SEQUENCE & SERIES

T n = n( n +1) (c)

(b)

Tn=

( 2) n
n +1

(d)

T n = 4n + 5

Find the general term T n for each of the following sequence:

(a)

1, 4, 9, 16, ..

(d)

3, 6, 12, 24,

(b)

-1, 2, -4, 8, . (c)

3, 5, 7, .

(e)

1 2 3 4 5
, , , , ,......
2 3 4 5 6

(f) 9, 6, 3, .

3.

The sum of the first 8 terms in an arithmetic progression is 56 and the first term is 0.
Find the thirteenth term.

4.

The first term of an arithmetic progression is 7 and 100th term is 502. Find the sum of
first 50 terms.

5.

The number of students enrolled in UMNE College is as follows:

In 2000, the number of students enrolled was 100
In 2001, the number of students enrolled was 150
In 2002, the number of students enrolled was 200
This pattern has been continuing every year thereafter.
Find: (a) How many students are expected to be enrolled in 2010
(b) The total number of student enrolled including 2009.

6.

Sandra Dee is planning to buy a motorcar. On April 1, 2004 she opened a saving account
with $500. She decided to double her saving on monthly basis. So on May 1, 2004 she
deposited $1000 to her account and June 1, 2004 she deposited $2000 to her account, and
so on. Assume that she continued saving at this rate
(i)
(ii)

7.

What was her total savings on September 1, 2004

How long did she take to save $511500 in total.

Seats in the UTECH Auditorium were arranged as follows: first row, 12 seats; second
row, 24 seats; third row, 36 seats, etc.
(i)
(ii)

8.

What is the total number of seats in the Auditorium if there are 40 rows?
Find the number of seats in 25th row?

A boy saves 1 cent on the first day of the month, two cents on the second day, four cents
on the third day, etc.
(i)
(ii)

How much will the boy have saved in total at the end of the 30- day month?
How much money will be saved on the 30th day?

9.

A man divides $1005 amongst 4 children; the amounts allocated being in G.P. If the
largest amount is 8 times the smallest amount, find the amounts allocated to each of the
children.

10.

At the MTECHs Freshers Bashment Concert, seats in the auditorium were arranged as
follows: first row 5 seats, second row 12 seats, third row 19 seats, fourth row 26 seats etc.
How many students attended the concert if there are 35 rows in total and all the seats were
taken?

11.

(i)
(ii)
(iii)

Obtain the number of terms in the following Geometric Progression

3, 6, 12, 24 .1536
Hence obtain the sum of the Geometric Progression.
Determine the 20th term of the G. P.

12.

A boy wishes to build a Circular pile of toy bricks so as to have 1 brick in the top row, 3
in the second row, 5 in the third row and so on. If he has 196 bricks, how many rows can
be completed?

13.

First term of an A.P is 10 and 5th term is 2 more than two times the first term. Find:

14.

(i)
the 27th term
(ii)
the sum of the first 50 terms.
First term of an A.P and G.P is the same and the 7th term of an A.P is same as 5th term of
the G.P. Given that the common difference is 5 and common ratio is 2. Find:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)

the first term

the 75th term of the given A.P
the sum of first 25 terms the given G.P

15.

A ball dropped from a hilltop and reached at the bottom in 24 seconds. The initial speed
of the ball was 20cm/s and the speed of the ball doubled each second. Find the distance
travelled by the ball.

16.

The first three consecutive terms of a geometric progression are

(x 2), (x + 2) and (5x 2), however, x 0.
Find the following:
(i)
the value of x
(ii)
the first term
(iii)
the common ratio
(iv)
the sum of the first fifty terms

17.

The first term of a sequence is 720. If each subsequent term differs from the previous
term by 11.
Write an expression for the nth term of the sequence
Find the sum of the first 59 terms of the sequence.

(i)
(ii)
18.
19.

20.

Mr. Jobs salary in 1993 was US$ 25, 000.00 per annum . Each year thereafter he
received an increase of 7% of the previous years salary. Find his salary in 2009.
(a)

Find the sum to infinity of the following series:

(i)

3 + 1.2 + 0.48 + ..

(b)
(i)

Find the limiting value of each of the following repeating decimals:

. .
0.333333.
(ii)
2.373737. (iii)
0. 4 5

(i)

n(n +1)

n =1 3
5

(ii)

n 1

n 2 +1
(iv)

n =2 n 6

25 - 20 + 16-..

(iii)

n =4

(v)

( 1)

n +1

(n 2)

n =1

n 2 +1

n =0 n +1

n =+2

20.

5 5
+ + .... (iii)
3 9

Evaluate the following:

4

21.

5+

(ii)

2n 1
2
+2

(vi)

n
0

Use Pascals Triangle to complete the following expansions:

(i) (1 + 2 x) 5
(v) ( x 3)

(ii)

(3 2 x ) 4

(iii)

( 2 3x )

(vi)

( 3 5x )

(vii)

(3n b) 4 x

(iv)

2 3
x + 2
x

(viii)

( x 2 y) 3 ( x + y)

Evaluate:
(i) 5!

(ii)

3! 4!
5!

(iii)

C3

(iv)

C4 4C3
6
C4