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Review: Sequence and Series Date________________

Given the explicit formula for an arithmetic sequence find the first five terms and the term
named in the problem.

1) an = 40 + (n - 1) × 7 2) an = -17 + (n - 1) × -100
Find a28 Find a22

Given two terms in an arithmetic sequence find the common difference.

3) a20 = 65 and a36 = 145 4) a16 = -73 and a32 = -137

Answer the following questions.

5) José averaged 123 total pins per game in his bowling league this season. He is taking bowling
lessons and hopes to bring his average up by 8 pins each new season.
a. Write an equation to represent the nth term of the sequence.
b. If the pattern continues, during what season will José average 187 per game?
c. Is it reasonable for this pattern to continue indefinitely? Explain.

6) The second term of an arithmetic sequence is -6. The sum of the first 4 terms of the arithmetic
sequence is -32. Find the first term a1, and the common difference, d, of the sequence.

7) An arithmetic sequence has a 9th term of -12 and a 21st term of -36. Find the common difference
and the first number.

8) Find the sum of the first 100 even numbers.

9) Find the first three terms of each arithmetic series.

a) n = 32, an = –86, Sn = 224
b) a1 = 19, n = 44, Sn = 9350

Determine the number of terms n in each arithmetic series.

10) a1 = 8, an = 86, S n = 658 11) a1 = 4, an = 16, S n = 70

Evaluate each arithmetic series described.

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12) S (10n - 10)

n=1
13) S (2m - 3)
m=3

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Given the formula for a geometric sequence find the common ratio, the first five terms, and the
term named in the problem.
n-1 n-1
14) an = -5 15) an = 2 × 3
Find a9, r, and the first 5 terms. Find a9, r, and the first 5 terms.

Given the first term and the common ratio of a geometric sequence find the term named in the
problem and the explicit formula.

16) a1 = 2, r = 2 17) a1 = -1, r = 2

Find a12 Find a11

Evaluate each geometric series described.

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18) a1 = -4, an = -16384, r = 4 n-1
19) S2×5
n=1

Determine the number of terms n in each geometric series.

20) a1 = -2, r = 4, S n = -170 21) -4 + 8 - 16 + 32..., S n = -684

n
22) -2 + 12 - 72 + 432..., S n = 13330 i-1
23) S6
i=1
= 1555

Evaluate each infinite geometric series described.

24) 1 - 4 + 16 - 64... 25) 27 + 9 + 3 + 1...

Determine the common ratio of the infinite geometric series.

4 27) a1 = 5.2, S = 52
26) a1 = 1, S =
3

28) Miranda arranges some rows of dominoes so that after she knocks over the first one, each domino
knocks over two more dominoes when it falls. If there are ten rows, how many dominoes does
Miranda use?

29) WEATHER Heavy rain in Brieanne’s town caused the river to rise. The river rose three inches
the first day, and each day after rose twice as much as the previous day. How much did the river
rise in five days?

30) BIOLOGY A certain bacteria grows at a rate of 3 cells every 2 minutes. If there were 260 cells
initially, how many are there after 21 minutes?

31) A virus goes through a computer, infecting the files. If one file was infected initially and the total
number of files infected doubles every minute, how many files will be infected in 20 minutes?
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 Answers to Review: Sequence and Series
1) First Five Terms: 40, 47, 54, 61, 68
a28 = 229
2) First Five Terms: -17, -117, -217, -317, -417
a22 = -2117
3) d = 5 4) d = -4
5) a. an = 115 + 8n
b. 9th season
c. Sample answer: No; there are a maximum of 300 points in a bowling game, so it would
be impossible for the average to continue to climb indefinitely.
6) a1=-2 and d = -4 7) d = -2 , a1=4 8) 10100 9) a) 100, 94, 88
b) 19, 28, 37
10) 14 11) 7 12) 100 13) 143
14) Common Ratio: r = 5 15) Common Ratio: r = 3
First Five Terms: -1, -5, -25, -125, -625 First Five Terms: 2, 6, 18, 54, 162
a9 = -390625 a9 = 13122
16) a12 = 4096 17) a11 = -1024 18) -21844
n-1 n-1
Explicit: an = 2 × 2 Explicit: an = -2
19) 195312 20) 4 21) 9 22) 6
23) 5 24) No sum 81 1
25) 26)
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27) 0.9 28) 1023 29) 93 in. 30) 864,567 bacteria
31) 524,288

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