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03 Mathematical Progression

Q.1 If Ahmad saves 1000 in the first month and 500 more every month, how much time he
need to save Rs.45000?
(a) 9 (b) 12
(c) 8 (d) 6
Q.2 Ali receives a total of Rs.288000 in two years in the form of monthly installments. If he
receives 1000 more than the previous month, calculate the first installment?
(a) 7500 (b) 6500
(c) 500 (d) 4500
Q.3 Ponting has to pay Rs. 1500,000 in installments. If he pay the first installment of Rs.
80,000 and increase every installment by 1.2 times, then in which year he will pay the
amount?
(a) 8th (b) 9th
(c) 10th (d) None of these
Q.4 If Clark saves Rs. 400,000 monthly in two years. If he saves 500 in first month and
increase by x every month. Find the amount of x.
(a) 1405.8 (b) 359.09
(c) 3600 (d) 3300
Q.5 Mr. Bryan has a salary scale of [1500- 360- 80,000]. Amount received in 4 years and 10
months will be____________________.
(a) 127320 (b) 1256749
(c) 332100 (d) None of above
Q.6 Mr. Khan saved Rs. X in January,. Then each subsequent month he saved Rs. 100 more
than the previous month. If his total savings at the end of December stood at Rs. 16,200
how much did he save in January?
(a) 700 (b) 800
(c) 900 (d) 1000
Q.7 The 3rd and the 7th term in an arithmetic progression are x + 7 and x + 49 respectively
find the 1st term.
(a) X–7 (b) X – 49
(c) X – 14 (d) X + 14
Q.8 Shafique and company has developed a new product which would earn a revenue of Rs.
90 million during the first year. Thereafter, the revenue would decline by 10% each year.
Calculate the revenue that the company would be able to earn over the life of the product.
(a) 450 million (b) 500 million
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Q.9 Asad Riaz has monthly income of Rs. 1000 and his income increase by Rs. 50 of the
previous month income. On which term his total amount of received salary will exceed
100,000.
(a) 47th (b) 49th
(c) 50th (d) 45th
Q.10 Mr. Dar Borrowed amount Rs. 1,500,000 and returned 80,000 in the first year. In each
upcoming year he returned 1.2 times of the previous year. In which year will he be able
to return the loan?
(a) 8th (b) 9th
(c) 10th (d) 11th
Q.11 The sum of all odd numbers between 200 and 300 is:
(a) 11,600 (b) 12,490
(c) 12,500 (d) 24,750
Q.12 The first term of an A.P is 14 and the sum of the first five terms and the first ten terms are
equal in magnitude but opposite in sign. Find the 11th term of A.P
(a) 616 (b) –378
(c) 1327 (d) -24.1
Q.13 The first and the last term of an AP are 2 and 180. The sum of the terms is 7171. The
number of terms is:
(a) 100 (b) 20
(c) 90 (d) 79
Q.14 If you save 1 paisa today, 2 paisa the next day 4 paisa the succeeding day and so on, then
your total savings in two weeks will be:
(a) Rs.163 (b) Rs.183
(c) Rs.163.83 (d) Rs. 16383
Q.15 Farhan is employed in a company at Rs.3,000 per month and he would get an increase of
Rs.100 per year in his monthly salary. The total amount which he receives in 25 years
and the monthly salary in the last year are:
(a) Rs.5,400 and Rs.1,250,000 (b) Rs.540 and Rs.1,260,000
(c) Rs.5,500 and Rs.1,260,000 (d) Rs.5,400 and Rs.1,260,000
Q.16 Three numbers are in AP and their sum is 21. If 1, 5, 15 are added to them respectively,
they form a G.P. the numbers are:
(a) 5, 7, 9 (b) 9, 5, 7
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Q.17 The sum of three numbers in G.P. is 70. If the two extreme terms are each multiplied by 4
and the geometric mean of these three terms is multiplied by 5 are in A.P. the numbers
are:
(a) 12, 18, 40 (b) 10, 30, 90
(c) 40, 20, 10 (d) None of these
Q.18 The sum of all natural numbers between 400 and 900 which are divisible by 7 is:
(a) 28,405 (b) 46,221
(c) 28,540 (d) None of these
Q.19 If unity is added to the sum of any number of terms of the A.P. 3, 5, 7, 9 the resulting
sum is:
(a) „a‟ perfect cube (b) „a‟ perfect square
(c) both (a) and (b) (d) none of these
Q.20 Ishfaque has to pay Rs.975 by monthly installments each installment less than the former
by Rs.5. The first installment paid is Rs.100. Find the time by which the entire amount
will be paid.
(a) 11 months (b) 15 months
(c) 13 months (d) 18 months
Q.21 Divide 12.50 into five parts in A.P. Such that the first part and the last part are in the ratio
of 2:3.
(a) 2, 2.25, 2.5, 2.75, 3 (b) –2, –2.25, –2.5, –2.75, –3
(c) 4, 4.5, 5, 5.5, 6 (d) –4, –4.5, –5, –5.5, –6
Q.22 Find the minimum value of n for which the sum of n terms of the series 1 + 3 + 32 + ……
is greater than 7,000:
(a) 9 (b) 10
(c) 8 (d) 7
Q.23 How many terms are there in the sequence of 1/128, 1/64, 1/32,…….,32, 64?
(a) 13 (b) 14
(c) 15 (d) 16
Q.24 Ahmad bought equipment for Rs. 450,000. The amount is payable in 11 annual
installments, where first 10 installments are in arithmetic progression and 11th
installment will settle the remaining balance. If the first two installments are Rs. 10,000
and Rs. 12,000 respectively compute the amount of 11th installment.
(a) 240,000 (b) 230,000
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Q.25 Arsam will invest Rs. 2 on the first day of January, Rs. 4 on the second day of January,
Rs. 6 on the third day of January and so on for the first five days of January. He will then
spend Rs 1 per day from sixth to tenth day of January. Compute what amount will he
have with him on the eleventh day of January
(a) 25 (b) 30
(c) 40 (d) 45
Q.26 A company produces 100 units in first week. It is expected that re-engineering production
process will increase output by 10% every week of the amount of units produced in
previous week till fifth week, after which the output per week will be constant. If re-
engineering is carried out compute the number of total units produced in ninth and tenth
week (to the nearest whole number)
(a) 292 (b) 280
(c) 275 (d) 288
Q.27 Mazhar Ali borrowed a loan of Rs 11,000 with the condition that the repayments will be
made in seven annual installments. The first and the last installments will be equal to
each other and the first six installments will be in arithmetic progression. If common
difference between first six installments is Rs 500. Compute fifth installment.
(a) 2,500 (c) 500
(b) 3,000 (d) 1,000
Q.28 Shuja enterprises limited earned a profit of Rs. 50,000 in first year. The profit is expected
to increase by Rs 5,000 each year. How many years will it take the company to earn a
total profit of Rs. 165,000
(a) 4 (b) 3
(c) 5 (d) 2
Q.29 If the first and the last terms of an arithmetic progression are 20 and 90 respectively and
the total number of terms is 10. Find the sum of all the terms
(a) 200 (b) 400
(c) 300 (d) 550
Q.30 A worker produces 2000 units in four days. If the production is expected to increase by
10% percent each day compute the total number of units produced on first and last day.
(a) 1004.4 (b) 604.23
(c) 300 (d) 360
Q.31 The first and the last term of an arithmetic progression are in the ratio of 3:4. The sum of
all terms is 210 and there are 6 terms in total. Calculate common difference.
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 5 (d) 10

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Q.32 Mohsin borrowed a loan of Rs 6,620 to be paid in three annual payments in geometric
progression. If the first installment is Rs. 2,000 compute the common ratio.
(a) 1.15 (b) 1.1
(c) 1.2 (d) 1.22
Q.33 The sum of 5 terms of an AP, whose last term is 17 is 65. Find first term of the series
(a) 9 (b) 13
(c) 11 (d) 11
Q.34 The last term of the sequence, 1, -4, 16, …… to 5th term is ?
(a) 64 (b) 256
(c) –256 (d) –64
Q.35 If the first term of a G.P is “a” and the common ratio is 2. What will be the value of third
term?
(a) a (b) 2a
(c) 3a (d) 4a
Q.36 If the fourth term of a G.P is 8 times its first term compute common ratio
(a) 3 (b) 4
(c) 2 (d) 5
Q.37 The first term of an A.P. is 5 and fourth term is 17. Compute the value of common
difference
(a) 4 (b) 12
(c) 3 (d) 5
Q.38 A particular A.P. has first term as 3 and third term as 7. The common difference of this
A.P. is equivalent to the first term of a G.P. with common ratio of 5. Find third term of
the G.P.
(a) 60 (b) 50
(c) 40 (d) 20
Q.39 Sum of a G.P. is 175, if the total number of terms is 3 and common ratio is 2 compute the
value of first term
(a) 25 (b) 50
(c) 40 (d) 70
Q.40 The infinite G.P. with common ratio of ½ and sum 10 is:
(a) 5, 2.5, 1.25 (b) 1.25, 2.5, 5….
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Q.41 Adeel saved x amount in January. Each month he saved Rs. 100 more than the previous
month. If his total savings at the end of December stood at Rs. 16,200 how much did he
save in January?
(a) 700 (b) 800
(c) 900 (d) 1,000
Q.42 The sum of all prime numbers between 0 and 100 is?
(a) 97 (b) 1600
(c) 1237.5 (d) None of these

Q.43 Shafique borrowed Rs. 1500,000, in first year he returned Rs. 80,000 and then he
increases his installment by 1.5 times of the previous month. In how many years he will
be able to return the loan?
(a) 9 years (b) 8 years
(c) 6 years (d) 5 years

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