10, Chapter 1 Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences 7 ‘Aziz was employed in 2015. His starting salary was RM2,400 every year his salary increases by 4% based on the previous year’s salary. What will his salary be in 2024? Strategy Here, a= 2,400; r= 0.04 and n =10 for the years from 2015 to 2024, His salary in 2024 is the tenth term of geometric sequence with a = 2,400 and r =1.04. Tyy= ar" = 2,400(1.04)°-1 = RM3,415.95 Review Questions Find () the tenth term and (ji) the sum of the first ten terms forthe following sequences. (@) 12,1722)... (&) 4,10, 16, Find the number of terms in the following sequences. (2) 5,11, 17, .., 83. ©) 4,8, 12, 40. Find the sum of (a) the first fifty positive integers, (b) the first twenty positive even numbers, (©) all odd integers from 23 to 151 inclusive. ‘The fifth and thirteenth terms of an arithmetic sequence are 25 and 65 respectively. Find the first term and the ‘common difference of the arithmetic sequence. Given an arithmetic sequence -20, -15,—10, ... 175, find: (a) the number of terms in the sequence. (b) the sum of the last twenty terms. Find the minimum number of terms that must be taken from the sequence 3, 5,7, 9, .. 8 that the sum is atleast 440. ‘The sum of the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence is 40 and the sum ofits frst ten terms is 155. What is this arithmetic sequence? ‘The first term of an arithmetic progression is 2 and the sum of the first thirty terms is 1,800. Find the common difference and the twentieth term. ‘The sixth term in an arithmetic progression is 25 and the sum of the first six terms in the progression is 80. Find the common difference. Determine the number of terms for the sequence 70, 64, 58, nn —14. ‘The sum of the first twenty terms of an arithmetic sequence is 840. Ifthe common difference is 4, find (@) the first term, (b) the sum of the first thirty terms. Scanned with CamScanner18 Business Mathematics: fifth edition 12, The first term of an arithmetic sequence is ~$ and the last term is 40. If the common difference is 3, find (@) the number of terms in the sequence, (b) the sum of all the terms in the sequence. 13, How many terms of the progression 50, 46, 42, ... must be taken for its sum to be equal to 0? 1 14, The sum of three consecutive terms x, y and z ofan arithmetic progression is 45. Ify = —(x + 2), find the value of y 15, The difference between the tenth term and the seventh term of an arithmetic sequence is ~60. The twelfth term divided by the sixth term is 2. Find the first term and the common difference. 16, The price of an item will increase by RM4 every month, If the current price is RM258, find its price in ten months’ time. 17, According to the new remuneration scheme, the starting pay of a lecturer is RM3,087 per month and the annual increment is RM195. Ahmad, who is 25 years old, becomes a lecturer in a university. (@)_ What will his monthly salary be when he is 45 years old? (b) What will his age be when he gets a monthly payment of RM8,937? 18. Aused caris offered for sale on an installment basis in which a down payment of RMS,000 has to be made, followed by a payment of RM1,000 at the end of the first month, RM950 at the end of the second month, RM900 at the end of the third month and so on for one year. What isthe installment price of the car? 19. A person who buys an insurance policy pays an increasing premium every year; that is, RM1,000, RMI,100, RMI,200 and so on. (a) Write a formula for the nth year’s premium, (&) What is the premium for the eighth year? 20. You buy a TV and agree to pay as follows: RM150 for the first month, RM140 for the second month, RM130 for the third month and so on for fifteen months. (@) Whats the fifteenth payment? (b) What is the total payment for the purchase? 21. To settle the purchase of a house, Kumar has to pay a down payment of RM10,000 plus RM2,000 at the end of the first month, RM1,900 at the end of the second month, RMI,800 at the end of the third month and so on for twenty ‘months. What is the total payment? 22. Ah Seng lent his friend some money. They agreed on the following interest charges. 1 100 2 120 Ft 140 4 160 Ifthe borrower borrowed the money for two years, find the total amount of interest that he had to pay. 23, A high-tise building has forty floors. A cleaning company charges RM80 to clean the first floor and an extra RM40 for each floor above the preceding floor. (a) Find the cleaning cost for the twenty-fifth floor. (b) Find the cleaning cost for the whole building. Scanned with CamScanner