FIITJEE COIMBATORE CENTRE

10 – MATHEMATICS – MVTL

1. What comes next in the sequence: 1, 2, 6, 22, ____?

(A) 82 (B) 84 (C) 86 (D) 88
2. 1+2+3+4+….+n =
n  n  1 n  n  1 n  n  1 n  n  1
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 2 (D) 2

  1  k!
4

3. What is the sum of the sequence k 0

(A) 36 (B) 37 (C) 38 (D) 39

4. What is the 31st term of the sequence: 1, 4, 7, 10, …. ?
(A) 90 (B) 91 (C) 92 (D) 93

5. What is the 11th term of the sequence:  m  2n,m  n,m,.... ?

(A) m+n (B) m–n (C) m+6n (D) m+8n
6. What is the sum of the sequence: 10, 20, 30, …., 1000 ?
(A) 50,000 (B) 50,250 (C) 50,500 (D) 50,750
7. What is the sum of the sequence: 1, 10, 100, 1000, … 1,000,000,000 ?
(A) 11,111,111,11 (B) 11,111,111,90 (C) 99,999,999,11 (D) 99,999,999,99
8. What is the 11th term of the sequence: 1, 3, 9, 27, …. ?
(A) 28 (B) 210 (C) 38 (D) 310
9. What is the sum of the first 100 natural numbers?
(A) 5,000 (B) 5,025 (C) 5,050 (D) 5,100
10. What is the sum of the first 100 odd numbers?
(A) 9,000 (B) 10,000 (C) 11,000 (D) 12,000
11. The eighth term in the series 2, 6, 18, 54, ___ is
(A) 4372 (B) 4374 (C) 7343 (D) 7434
12. Find the missing number.
1, 2, 6, 24, 120, ?
(A) 350 (B) 424 (C) 720 (D) 500
13. Next term of the sequence 0.02, 0.006, 0.0018,… is
(A) 0.0036 (B) 0.0052 (C) 0.00054 (D) 0.00034
14. Insert the missing number
5, 17, 14, 26, 23, 35, 32, ___
(A) 34 (B) 44 (C) 54 (D) 64
15. How many numbers in the sequence -1, -5/6, -2/3, ………..10/3 ?
(A) 25 numbers (B) 26 numbers (C) 27 numbers (D) 28 numbers
th 2
16. Find the 8  term of the sequence whose general term is 2n  – 3n + 1
(A) 105 (B) 110 (C) 115 (D) 120
17. How many terms are there in the G.P. 3, 6, 12, 24, ….384.
 (A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10
18. In the series 7, 10, 13, …. 20th term is
(A) 56 (B) 59 (C) 64 (D) 66
19. For the given Airthmetic progression find the position of first negative term?
50, 47, 44, 41, …………
(A) 17 (B) 20
(C) 18 (D) None of the above
20. For the given Airthmetic progression find the first negative term?
50, 47, 44, 41,…………
(A) -1 (B) -2 (C) -3 (D) None of the above
21. Which of the following sequences in AP will have common difference 3, where n is an Integer?
(A) an = 2n2 + 3n (B) an = 2n2 + 3 (C) an = 3n2 + 3n (D) an = 5 + 3n
22. If a, c, b are in AP then relation between a, b, c can be
(A) 2b = 2a + 3c (B) 2a = b + c (C) 2b = a + c (D) 2c = a + b
23. Write the first four terms of the arithmetic sequence if a1 = 5 and other three consecutive terms
are 23,26,29
(A) 23,26,29,32 (B) 5, 8, 11, 14 (C) 8,11,14,17 (D) none of these
24. The common ratio of the geometric sequence cannot be

(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3

25. A sequence of the numbers whose reciprocals form an arithmetic sequence is called

(A) geometric series (B) arithmetic sequence

(C) harmonic sequence (D) harmonic series

an   1  n  7
n 1

26. The third term of the sequence

(A) 8 (B) 4 (C) – 4 (D) – 8

27. A.M. between 1  x  x and 1  x  x is

2 2

(A) 1  x (B) 1  x (C) 1  x (D) 1  x

2 2

28. If an  2  3n  11, find the nth term of the sequence

(A) 11 (B) 3n-5 (C) 3n-6 (D) None of these
n
k 
3

29. k 1

n  n  1 n2  n  1 n  n  1  2n  1
2

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) None of these

30. The nth term of a G.P. is
n 1 n 1 n
(A) a1r (B) a1r (C) a1r (D) a1r
n

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