National Junior College Mathematics Department 2016

National Junior College

2015 – 2016 H2 Mathematics
Term 3 Revision Lecture Series – Quiz (35 min)
Topics: Sequences & Series, Arithmetic & Geometric Series 18
Name: Class: 2ma2__/2IPma21__ / 2IPma22__

1
1 Given that ur  ,
r3
6r 2  2
(i) Show that ur 1  ur 1  . [2]
r 
3
2
1
n
3r 2  1
(ii) Hence find  in terms of n . [3]
 
3
r 2 r 2 1
n
3(r  1) 2  1
(iii) Use your answer to part (ii) to find  3
in terms of n.
r 3 (r  1) 2  1

3(r  1) 2  1
Hence find  3
. [3]
r 3 (r  1) 2  1

2 An athlete hopes to represent Singapore at the SEA Games in 2015 and he embarks on a
rigorous training programme. For his first training session, he ran a distance of 7.5 km. For
his subsequent training sessions, he ran a distance of 800 m more than the previous training
session.

(i) Express, in terms of n, the distance (in km) he ran on his nth training session. [1]

(ii) Find the minimum number of training sessions required for him to run a total distance
of at least 475 km. [3]

After a month, he realised that his progress was unsatisfactory and he decided to modify the
training. For the modified training programme, he ran a distance of x km for the first session,
6
and on each subsequent training session, the distance covered is times of the previous
5
session.

(iii) Find x, to the nearest integer, if he covered a distance of 14.93 km on the 6th training
session. [2]

(iv) Using the answer in (iii), and denoting the total distance after n training sessions by Gn,
N
write down an expression for Gn in terms of n. Hence show that  Gn may be
n 1
expressed in the form aGN + bN, where a and b are integers to be determined. [4]

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