Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI - Western Visayas
Schools Division of Iloilo
DON FELIX SERRA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
San Joaquin, Iloilo

FIRST QUARTER – GRADE 10

SUMMATIVE TEST (GENERATING PATTERNS, SEQUENCE, ARITHMETIC
SEQUENCE)

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NAME: ____________________________ SCORE:
20
GRADE & SECTION: __________________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. Which set of numbers is an example of an arithmetic sequence?
A. 2, 4, 8,… B. 2, 1, 0, -1,… C. 1, 4, 9, 16,… D. 0, 1, 1, 2,…
2. Which set of numbers is not an arithmetic sequence?
1 1 1 1
A. , , , ,… B. 10, 20, 30,… C. 15, 20, 25,… D. 5, 7, 9, 11,…
2 4 6 8
3. Is 2 √ 2, 5 √ 2, 8 √ 2 ,11 √ 2 , … an arithmetic sequence?
A. Yes, because it has a common difference of -3.
B. Yes, because it has a common difference of 3.
C. No, because it has a common ratio of -3.
D. No, because it has a common ration of 3.
4. A sequence where every term after the first is obtained by adding a constant called
the common difference.
A. Fibonacci sequence
B. harmonic sequence
C. geometric sequence
D. arithmetic sequence
5. What is the next term in the arithmetic sequence -4, -1, 2, 5, 8?
A. 11 B. 10 C. 12 D. 9
6. What is the 10 term of an arithmetic sequence 10, 7, 4, 1,…?
th

A. 17 B. -17 C. 15 D. -15
7. What is the arithmetic sequence with the nth term of 2n + 5?
A. 2, 4, 6, 8, … B. 5, 10, 15, 20 C. 15, 13, 11, 9, … D. 7, 9, 11, 13,
15, 17, …
8. Find a1 of an arithmetic sequence if a8 = 54 and a9 = 60
A. 6 B. 12 C. 21 D. -12
9. If three arithmetic means are inserted between 5 and 25, what are these means?
A. 10, 12, 14 B. 15, 18, 21 C. 10, 15, 20 D. 12, 13, 14
10. If five arithmetic means are inserted between -9 and 9, what is the third mean?
A. -3 B. 3 C. 0 D. 6
11. The arithmetic means between -4 and 8 is…
A. 12 B. 6 C. 4 D. 2
 12. What is the sum of the first seven terms of the sequence 3, 6, 9, 12,…?
A. 84 B. 83 C. 82 D. 81
13. What is the sum of all the odd integers from 1 to 50?
A. 600 B. 625 C. 650 D. 675

14. The third term of an arithmetic sequence is -12 and the seventh term is 8. What is
the sum of the first 10 terms?
A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20
1 3 5 7
15. Find the common difference of the arithmetic sequence , , , , …?
2 2 2 2
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
16. What is the common difference of the arithmetic sequence with a4 = 10 and a11 =
45?
A. 5 B. -5 C. 6 D. -6
17. How many terms are there in an arithmetic sequence with a common difference of 4
and with first and last terms 3 and 59 respectively?
A. 15 B. 14 C. 13 D. 12
18. Which term of the arithmetic sequence 4, 1, -2, -5,… is -29?
A. 9th term B. 10th term C. 11th term D. 12th term
19. During a free-fall, a skydiver jumps 16 feet, 48 feet, and 80 feet on the first, second,
and third fall, respectively. If he continues to jump at this rate, how many feet will
he have jumped during the tenth fall?
A. 304 B. 336 C. 314 928 D. 944 784
20. A pile of blocks has 60 blocks in the bottom row, 54 blocks in the second row, 48
blocks in the third row, and so on until there is only 6 blocks on the top row. How
many blocks are there in the 8th row?
A. 24 B. 20 C. 18 D. 10

God bless & Good luck!!!

Prepared by:

Roel G. Segualan
Mathematics 10 Teacher