1. Find the harmonic mean between the numbers 9.

What must be the value of x in the arithmetic

3/8 and 4. progression x-7, x-2, x+3, … so that its 10th term
a. 35/34 c. 42/35 will be 40?
b. 24/35 d. 35/24 a. 4
2. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of an b. 3
arithmetic progression whose 7th term is 5/3 c. 2
and with a common difference of -2/3. d. 1
a. 22 c. 26
b. 24 d. 28
3. How many arithmetic means must be inserted 10. The 3rd term of an arithmetic progression is 4
between 1 and 36 so that the sum of the and the 9th term is -14. Find the sum of the first
resulting arithmetic progression will be 148? six terms.
a. 5 a. 21
b. 6 b. 19
c. 7 c. 17
d. 8 d. 15
4. How many terms of the arithmetic progression 11. How many consecutive numbers beginning
9,11,13,.. must be added in order that the sum with5 must be taken for their sum to be equal to
should be equal the sum of the first nine terms 95?
of the geometric progression 3,-6,12,-24,…? a. 12
a. 18 b. 11
b. 19 c. 10
c. 20 d. 9
d. 21 12. The ratio of three numbers is 2:5:7. If 7 is
5. How many arithmetic means must be inserted subtracted from the second number, the
between 1 and 36 so that the sum of all resulting number form an arithmetic
numbers in the resulting progression will be progression. Determine the smallest of the
148? three numbers.
a. 4 a. 28
b. 3 b. 15
c. 5 c. 21
d. 6 d. 70
6. The positive value of x so that x, x2-5 and 2x will 13. Find the 50th term of 1+i, 2+4i, 3+7i, …
be in harmonic progression is a. 47 + 148i
a. 6 b. 48 + 148i
b. 5 c. 49 + 148i
c. 4 d. 50 + 148i
d. 3 14. Find the 10th term in an arithmetic progression
7. The 3rd term of a harmonic progression is 15 and where the first term is 3 and whose 1st, 4th and
the 9th term is 6. Find the 11th term. 13th terms form a geometric progression.
a. 4 a. 21
b. 8 b. 22
c. 5 c. 23
d. 7 d. 24
8. Find x so that x-1, x+2, and x+8 are the first 15. The sum of the first three terms of an arithmetic
three terms of a geometric progression. progression is-3 while the sum of the first five
a. 4 terms of the same arithmetic progression is 10.
b. 3 Find the first term.
c. 5 a. -5
d. 2 b. -4
c. -3
d. -2
16. If the first term and third term of a harmonic 24. The 4th term of a geometric progression is 343
progression are 5/21 and 5/23 respectively, find and the 6th term is 16807. Find the 8th term.
the 6th term a. 853,243
a. 26/5 b. 835,432
b. 27/5 c. 824,533
c. 24/5 d. 823,543
d. 23/5 25. The arithmetic mean of the two positive
17. How many consecutive terms must be taken numbers exceeds their geometric mean by 2.
form the sequence 3, -6, -12, -24, … for the sum Find the smalle number if it is 40 less than the
to equal 8193? larger number.
a. 11 a. 90
b. 12 b. 101
c. 13 c. 121
d. 14 d. 81
18. Find the 8th term of 5x+1, 52x+1, 53x+1, …. 26. Find the sum of the first five terms of the
a. 56x+1 geometric progression if the 3rd term is 144 and
b. 57x+1 6th term is 486.
c. 58x+1 a. 844
d. 59x+1 b. 972
19. Find the common ratio of a geometric c. 746
progression whose first term is 1 and for which d. 548
the sum of the first 6 terms is 28 times the sum 27. How many terms of the progression 4, 7, 10, 13,
of the first 3 terms. …. Must be taken so that the sum will be 69.
a. 2 a. 6
b. 3 b. 9
c. 4 c. 8
d. 5 d. 12
20. Find the sum of all positive integers between 84 28. A ball is dropped from a height of 28cm. If it is
and 719 which are exactly divisible by 5. always rebounds ½ of the height from which it
a. 23750 falls, how far does it travel after the fifth
b. 45680 bounce? 80.5 cm
c. 50800 a. 372 cm
d. 38460 b. 374 cm
21. In a certain A.P, the 1st, 4th and 8th terms are c. 376 cm
themselves form a geometric progression. What d. 378 cm
is the common ratio of the G.P? 29. If 1 + x + x2 + … = ¼, find the value of x.
a. 4/3 a. -1/2
b. 5/4 b. -1/3
c. 4/5 c. -1/4
d. ¾ d. -1/5
22. The 1st term of an arithmetic progression is 6 30. Find the sum of the infinity of 1 – ½ + ¼ - 1/8 + …
and the 10th term is 3 times the 2nd term. What a. 1/3
is the common difference? b. 2/3
a. 1 c. ¼
b. 2 d. ¾
c. 3 31. The bob of a pendulum swings through an arc of
d. 4 24cm long on its first swing. If each successive
23. The 3rd term of a geometric progression is 5 and swing is approximately 5/6 the length of the
the 6th term is -40. Find the 8th term. preceeding swing, find the approximate total
a. -140 distance it travels before coming to rest.
b. -150 a. 121 cm
c. -160 b. 114 cm
d. -170 c. 144 cm
d. 169 cm
32. Solve for x in the equation x + 3x + 5x + 7x + … + 39. If the sum is 220 and the first term is 10, find the
49x = 625. common difference if the last term is 30.
a. ¼ a. 2
b. ½ b. 5
c. 1 c. 3
d. 2 d. 2/3
33. Find the sum of all integers between 90 and 190 40. In the arithmetic progression -9, -2, 5, … which
if each integer is exactly divisible by 17? term is 131?
a. 847 a. 20
b. 857 b. 21
c. 867 c. 22
d. 887 d. 23
34. If 1/a, 1/b and 1/c are consecutive terms of an 41. In a geometric progression, if the first term is x 2
arithmetic progression, then b equals and the common ratio is x4, which term is x18?
a. 2ac/(a+c) a. 4th
b. ac/(a+c) b. 5th
c. (a+c)/2ac c. 6th
d. (a+c)/ac d. 7th
35. For a geometric progression for which the first 42. The arithmetic mean of two numbers is 4 and
term is x+y and the common ratio is the their harmonic mean is 15/4. Find the numbers.
reciprocal of the first term, find the 10th term. a. 3 and 5
a. (x+y)-5 b. 1 and 7
b. (x+y)-6 c. 2 and 6
c. (x+y)-7 d. 0 and 8
d. (x+y)-8 43. What value of x makes the three terms x,
x/(x+1) and 3x/[(x+1)(x+2)] those of a geometric
sequence?
36. The first term of a geometric progression is 3 a. 1
and the last term is 48. If each term is twice the b. ½
previous term, find the sum of the geometric c. ¼
progression. d. -1/2
a. 93
b. 92
c. 91
d. 90
44. Find the ratio of the infinite geometric series if
37. A woman started a chain letter by writing to
the sum is 2 and the first term is ½.
four friends and requesting each to copy a letter
a. 1/3
and send it to four other friends. If the chain
b. 1/2
was unbroken until the 5th set of letters was
c. 3/4
mailed, how much spent for postage at P8.00
d. 1/4
per letter?
45. Determine the 7th term of the arithmetic
a. 16,219
progression 3xy – y, 2xy, xy + y, …
b. 10,912
a. 5y – 3xy
c. 21,835
b. 5y + 3xy
d. 13,291
c. 5x – xy
38. A soccer ball is dropped from a height of 6m. On
d. 5x + xy
each rebound it rises 2/3 of the height form
46. If a, b, 2b - a, …. Is an arithmetic progression,
which it last fell. What distance has it travelled
find the next term.
at the instant it strikes the ground for the 7th
a. 2b – 3a
time?
b. 3b – 2a
a. 27.89 m
c. 2b + 3a
b. 19.86 m
d. 2b + a
c. 20.87 m
d. 24.27 m
47. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom
layer, 58 bricks in the second layer, 55 bricks in
the third layer and sol until there are 10 bricks in
the last layer. How many bricks are thre
together?
a. 638
b. 637
c. 640
d. 639
48. If x, y and 5x are three consecutive terms of an
arithmetic progression whose sum is 81, find x.
a. 9
b. 10
c. 11
d. 12
49. Once a month a man put some money into the
cookie jar. Each month he put 50 cents more
into the jar than the month before. After 12
years he counted his money, he had P5436. How
much did he put in the jar in the last month?
a. P73.50
b. P75.50
c. P74.50
d. P72.50
50. The seventh term is 56 and the 12th terms is -
1792 of the geometric progression. Find the
ratio and the first term. Assume the ratios are
equal.
a. -2, 7/8
b. -1, 5/8
c. -1, 7/8
d. -2, 5/8