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12 past-paper questions on Series
An arithmetic progression has first term a and common difference 2. The Nth term is 55 and the sum of the first 3N terms is 5760.…
Practise the full question →Find the sum of all the terms of the arithmetic progression whose values are between 25 and 100.
Practise the full question →The fourth and sixth terms of a geometric progression are 36 and 6 respectively. The common ratio of the progression is positive.…
Practise the full question →The third term of a geometric progression is 18 and the sum of the first three terms is 26. It is given that the common ratio is…
Practise the full question →The first term of a convergent geometric progression is 10. The sum of the first 4 terms of the progression is p and the sum of…
Practise the full question →The coefficient of $\frac{1}{x}$ in the expansion of $(kx + \frac{1}{x})^5 + (1 - \frac{2}{x})^8$ is 74. Find the value of the…
Practise the full question →The sum of the first 77 terms of the arithmetic progression is denoted by S77. The sum of the first 10 terms of the geometric…
Practise the full question →In the expansion of (kx+2/x)^4, where k is a positive constant, the term independent of x is equal to 150. Find the value of k…
Practise the full question →The first three terms of a geometric progression are 25, 4q-1 and 13-q, where q is a positive constant. Find the sum to infinity…
Practise the full question →The coefficient of x⁷ in the expansion of (px² + (4/px))⁵ is 1280. Find the value of the constant p.
Practise the full question →The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are 25, 4p – 1 and 13-p, where p is a constant. Find the value of the tenth…
Practise the full question →Hence obtain the expansion of f(x) in ascending powers of x, up to and including the term in x².
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