VELAMMAL MAIN IIT & MEDICAL ACADEMY

XI IIT MATHEMATICS DATE:06-07-20

TOPIC : SEQUENCES AND SERIES ADVANCED DPP-2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS WITH ONE OR MORE THAN ONE CORRECT ANSWER TYPE

1
1. If 10 harmonic means H1, H2, H3 ......... H10 are inserted between 7 and – , then -
3

3 1 7
(A) H1 = –7 (B) H2 = (C) H1 = – (D) H10 = 
7 7 19

2. If the AM of two positive numbers be three times their geometric mean then the ratio of the numbers is -

3  2 2 
2
(A) 3  2 2 (B) 2 1 (C) 17  12 2 (D)

3. Let a, x, b be in A.P. ; a, y, b be in G.P. and a, z, b be in H.P. If x = y + 2 and a = 5z then -

9 1
(A) y2 = xz (B) x > y > z (C) a = 9, b = 1 (D) a = ,b=
4 4

4. The pth term Tp of H.P. is q(q + p) and qth term Tq is p(p + q) when p > 1, q > 1, then -
(A) Tp + q = pq (B) Tpq = p + q (C) Tp + q > Tpq (D) Tpq > Tp+q
5. a, b, c are three distinct real numbers, which are in G.P. and a + b + c = xb, then -
(A) x < –1 (B) –1 < x < 2 (C) 2 < x < 3 (D) x > 3

6. If Sn denotes the sum to n terms of the series (1  n  9) 1 + 22 + 333 + …… + 9999, then

9 times
for n  2
1 1
(A) Sn – Sn–1 = (10n – n2 + n) (B) Sn = (10n – n2 + 2n – 2)
9 9
(C) 9(Sn – Sn–1) = n(10n – 1) (D) S3 = 356

7. If a1, a2, ............ an are in H.P. and d be the common difference of the corresponding A.P. then
the expression a1a2 + a2a3 + ......... + an–1an is equal to
a1  a n
(A) (B) (n – 1) (a1 – an)
d
(C) n (a1 – an) (D) (n – 1)a1an
8. Let a and b be two positive real numbers. Suppose A1, A2 are two arithmetic means;
G1, G2 are two geometric means and H1, H2 are two harmonic means between a and b then
GG A A 
GG 
5 2 a b
(A) H H  H  H (B) H H  9  9  b  a 
1 2 1 2 1 2

1 2 1 2 1 2  
H H 9ab
(C) A  A   2a  b  a  2b 
1 2

1 2

GG H H
(D) H H  A  A
1 2 1 2

1 2 1 2
 99

9. If x1, x2, x3 ...... x100 are in H.P and xx

i 1
i i 1   x1 x100 , then  must be equal to
(A) 100 (B) 99 (C) 101 (D) 98

MATCHING
10. Column-I Column-II
 1 1 1 1 
100     ........  
(A)
 1·2 2 ·3 3·4 99 ·100  (P) 7

(B) If x is the A.M. between two real numbers a and b, y = a2/3 · b1/3 (Q) 9
z3
and z = a1/3 b2/3, then y2 + (R) 99
xyz
1 3
(C) If 198 A.Ms are inserted between and , (S) 100
4 4
then the sum of these AM's is
n ( n  1) n ( n  1)( n  2)
(D) If n is a positive integer such that n, and (T) 2
2 6
are in A.P., then the value of n is

KEY
1)AD 2)CD 3)ABC 4)ABC 5)AD 6)CD 7)AD 8)ABC 9)B
10)A-R,B-T,C-R,D-P,T