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PAPER 1(SET 1) JOHOR 2009 1. Find the least number of terms in the arithmetic progression sum exceeds 200. so that its [3 marks]

2.

The first three consecutive positive terms of a geometric progression are 2, y and 18. Find the common ration of the progression. [2 marks]

KEDAH 2009 3. The sixth and eleventh terms of an arithmetic progression are 12 and 37 respectively. Find the value of the sixteenth term of this arithmetic progression. [3 marks] 4. The first three terms of a geometric progression are 36, 36-p and q. If the common ratio is 5. , find the value of and of . [3 marks]

The first term of a geometric progression is and the common ration is . Given that and the sum to infinity is 32, find the value of and of . [4 marks]

KELANTAN 2009 6. The fourth term of an arithmetic progression is 7. The sum of the first six terms is 51. Find the first term and the common difference of the progression. [4 marks] The nth term of a geometric progression is given by infinity of the progression. MELAKA 2009 8. The sum of the first terms of an arithmetic progression is given by Find the common difference of the progression. The first three terms of a geometric progression are the sum to infinity of the progression. and . [3 marks] Find [3 marks] . Find the sum to [3 marks]

7.

9.

MRSM 2009 10. All the terms of a geometric progression are positive. The first three terms are and . Find the value of . [4 marks] The first term of an arithmetic progression is 13 and the common difference is 3. Find the value of the first term that exceeds 2000. [3 marks]
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PAHANG 2009 12. A piece of string of length 12 m is cut into 20 pieces in such a way that the lengths of the pieces are in arithmetic progressions. If the length of the longest piece is five times of the length of the shortest piece, find the length of the longest piece. [3 marks] 13. The fourth and seventh terms of a geometric progression are 18 and 486 respectively. Find the third term. [4 marks]

PENANG 2009 14. Given is an arithmetic progression. Find the common difference of the progression. [2marks] Given an arithmetic progression progression. . Find the number of terms of the [3 marks]

15.

16.

The sum to infinity of geometric progression with common ratio is 27. Find the first term. [3 marks]

PERAK 2009 17. It is given that the first four terms of an arithmetic progression are Find the value of . The third term of a geometric progression is 16 and its common ratio is sum to infinity of the progression. 19. The first four terms of an arithmetic progression are a) b) PERLIS 2009 20. The first term and the last term of an arithmetic progression are respectively. It is given that the sum of all the terms is Find a) b) the number of terms, the common difference [4 marks] and the fifth term of the progression, the sum of next 24 terms after the fourth term [3 marks] Find and . [2 marks] . Find the [3 marks]

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21. Three consecutive terms of a geometric progression are where . Find a) b) SABAH 2009 22. 23. Given a geometric progression express in terms of . and [3 marks] [2 marks] the value of the common ration [3 marks] and ,

The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are Find the first term of the arithmetic progression.

24.

Express the recurring decimal 0.474747.....as a fraction in its simplest form. [3 marks]

SARAWAK ZON A 2009 25. The sum of the first terms of an arithmetic progression is given by

. Find a) b) the common difference, the eleventh term [3 marks]

of the progression. 26.

Express the recurring decimal 0.21212121......as a fraction in its simplest form. [3 marks]

SARAWAK ZON C 2009 27. 28. Find the sum to infinity of the series [2 marks]

The seventh term of an arithmetic progression is 80 and the sum of the first seven terms is 413. Find a) b) the first term and the common difference the sum of the sixth term to the tenth term [4 marks]

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SELANGOR 2009 29. Given the three consecutive terms of a geometric progression are Find the value of 30. and , where

[2 marks]

Given the second term and the tenth term of an arithmetic progression are 12 and 52 respectively. Find a) b) the common difference, the first term [3 marks]

KLANG 2009 31. It is given that the first five terms of an arithmetic progression are Find the value of

[2 marks]

32.

The 2nd term of a geometric progression is 60 and the 4th term is 1500.Given that the common ration is positive. Find a) b) the common ratio the sum of the first 6 terms [4 marks]

TERENGGANU 2009 33. Given the three consecutive terms of an arithmetic progression are and 34. , where is a constant. Find the value of Find [2 marks]

The first three terms of a geometric progression are a) b) the fourth term, the sum to infinity, of the geometric progression.

[4 marks]

WP 2009 35. An arithmetic progression a) b) 36. the value of the term with value [3 marks] and the sum of the first five [3 marks] has a common difference of Find

In a geometric progression, the sum to infinity is terms is . Find the value of the common ratio.

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MELAKA TENGAH 2009 37. Given is the first four terms of an arithmetic progression. If , find the thirteenth terms. 38. Given the a) b) SBP 2009 39. It is given an arithmetic progression is 5, 7, 9,........, 87.Find the number of terms of this progression. [3 marks] It is given the first three terms of a geometric series are sum to infinity of the series. Find the [3 marks] term for the geometric progression is . Calculate [4 marks]

common ratio sum to infinity for the progression [3 marks]

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PAPER 1(SET 2) JOHOR 2008 1. The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are value of The sum of the first five terms of a geometric progression is ratio is . Find the first term. KELANTAN 2008 3. The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are the 5th term of the sequence. Find the value of and [2 marks] and Find the [2 marks]

2.

and the common [3 marks]

4.

The 7th term of an arithmetic progression is and the sum of first four terms of the progression is where is a constant. Given that the first term of the progression is 3, find the value of . [4 marks] Given the a) b) term for the geometric progression is . Find

5.

common ratio the sum of first 12 terms of the progression [3 marks]

MELAKA 2008 6. The first and second terms of a geometric progression are the sum to infinity of the geometric progression. Find the number of terms of the arithmetic progression Given the geometric progression fifth term to the eighth term. and respectively. Find [2 marks] [3 marks]

7. 8.

. Find the sum of all the terms from the [3 marks]

NEGERI SEMBILAN 2008 9. The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are a) b) 10. Given a) state and
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the value of the sum of the first 12 terms of the progression [4 marks]

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b) c) find common ratio of the progression express the recurring decimals as a fraction in its simplest form. [4 marks] 11. The sum of the 2nd and the 3rd terms of a geometric progression is 6 and the sum of the 3rd and the 4th terms is -12. Find a) b) PAHANG 2008 12. The following sequence is an arithmetic progression. the first term the common ratio [4 marks]

Find 13. a)

in terms of

and

[3 marks] . Find [2 marks] as a fraction in the lowest form [2 marks]

The first three consecutive terms of a geometric progression are the ninth term

b)

Express the recurring decimal

SARAWAK ZON A 2009 14. The a) b) 15. term of an arithmetic progression is given by the first term and the common difference the sum of the first 15 terms of the progression [4 marks] .Find the [3 marks] Find

The first three terms of a geometric progression are three consecutive terms whose product is .

SBP 2008 16. An arithmetic progression has 9 terms. The sum of the first four terms is 24 and the sum of all the odd number terms is 55. Find a) b) the first term and the common difference the seventh term [4 marks]

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17. For a geometric progression, the sum of the first two terms is 30 and the third term exceeds the first term by 15. Find the common ratio and the first term of the geometric progression. [4 marks]

SELANGOR 2008 18. The first three terms of a sequence are the sequence is an arithmetic progression. Given a geometric progression and . Find the value of so that [2 marks] in terms of [3 marks]

19. 20.

. Express

The first term of an arithmetic progression is . Given that the value of the 13th term is 4 times the value of the 5th term, find the common difference of this arithmetic progression. [3 marks]

WP 2008 21. The third and the fifth terms of a geometric progression are and respectively. Given that all the terms are positive, find the common ratio and the first term. [4 marks] 22. Given that are three consecutive terms of a geometric progression, find the possible values of . [4 marks] The sum for the first six terms of an arithmetic progression is 39. If the 6 th term is 8, find the first term. [3 marks]

23.

SABAH 2008 24. An arithmetic progression has 15 as the second term and -3 as the common difference. List the first five terms of the progression. [2 marks] The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are a) b) 26. the value of the sum of the first 8 terms of the progression. [4 marks] Find

25.

The first term and the fourth term of a geometric progression are 16 and 2 respectively. Calculate the sum to infinity of the geometric progression. [3 marks]

MRSM 2008 27. The first three terms of a geometric progression are the value of and the common ratio. Calculate [3 marks]

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28. The term of an arithmetic progression, sum of the first terms of the progression. , is given by . Find the [3 marks]

PERAK 2008 29. The first three terms of an arithmetic progression are a) b) 30. the value of the sum of the first 10 terms of the progression. [3 marks] Find

In a geometric progression, the second term is 72 and the fourth term is 8. Calculate a) b) the positive value of the common ratio, the sum to infinity of the geometric progression [4 marks]

TERENGGANU 2008 31. A typist takes 6.75 minutes to type the first page but the speed decreases with the constant rate for the consequent pages. She took 0.25 minutes more compared to the first page. Find the time taken to type the first 8 pages in minutes. [3 marks] The sum of the first Find the second term. terms of a geometric progression is given by [3 marks] .

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PAPER 2(SET 1) JOHOR 2009 1. Ahmad has 1000 chickens in his poultry farm. Every week, he will sell 40 of his chickens. a) Find the total number of chicken left in his poultry farm after 21 st week. [4 marks] b) The cost of feeding each chick is RM2 per week. Find the total amount of money that he spent on the remaining chicken for the first twelve weeks. [3 marks]

KEDAH 2009 2.

Diagram 1

A strip of metal is cut and bent to form some semicircles. Diagram 1 shows the first four semicircles formed. The radius of the smallest semicircle is 5 cm. The radius of each subsequent semicircle is increased by 3 cm. a) If the radius of the largest semicircle is 104 cm, find the number of semicircles formed. [3 marks] Calculate the total cost needed to form all the semicircles in (a) if the cost of the metal strip is RM4 per meter [4 marks]

b)

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KELANTAN 2009 3.

Diagram 2 Diagram 2 shows a series of circles. The total circumference of first five circles are . The lengths of diameter of circles is more than the previous circle. a) b) Find the diameter of the smallest circle. [3 marks]

Calculate the number of circular rings that can be made by using a piece of wire with length of . [4 marks]

MELAKA 2009 4. Diagram 3 shows a circle with radius . The circumference of the circle is divided into five parts according to a geometric progression.

Diagram 3 If the length of arc of the longest part is 16 times the length of arc of the shortest part, (Use a) b) ). Find,

common ratio of the progression the length of arc of the shortest part [7 marks]
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PAHANG 2009 5. Diagram 4 shows a few circles. The first circle is the largest circle with a radius of . The second circle has a radius of . The third circle has a radius which is

of the radius of second circle and this process is continued indefinitely.

Diagram 4 a) Show that the perimeters of the circles form a geometric progression with common ratio b) by using first three circles. [2 marks] , find in terms of ,

Given that the area of the largest circle is i) ii) the circumference of the 10th circle

the sum of the circumference of infinite number of circles formed. [5 marks]

PENANG 2009 6. Diagram 5 shows the first three semicircles of the 17 semicircle formed from a piece of wire.

Diagram 5

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The radius of the first semicircle is and the radius of the subsequent semicircles increase uniformly by . Given that the radius of the biggest semicircle is , find a) b) the value of [4 marks]

the length of wire (in terms of ) needed to form the above 17 semicircles. [4 marks]

PERAK 2009 7.

Diagram 6 Diagram 6 shows an arrangement of right-angled triangles for an infinite number of similar triangles. The base and the height of the first triangle is and respectively. The base and the height of each of the subsequent triangles is half of the base and one third of the height of the previous triangle. a) Show that the areas of the triangles form a geometric progression. State the common ratio of the progression. [3 marks] It is given that i) ii) and . . for all the triangles. [5 marks]

b)

Determine which triangle has an area of Find the sum to infinity of the areas, in

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PERLIS 2009 8. Diagram 7 shows part of several squares formed from a roll of wire of length .

Diagram 7 The side of the smallest square is subsequent square increases by a) b) c) SABAH 2009 9. A string of length is cut into pieces, with the length of each piece forming an arithmetic progression. The two shortest pieces are of lengths and . If , find a) b) SBP 2009 10. A pump is used to extract certain type of liquid from a container. The first extraction draws a volume of 36 cm3 of liquid, and the subsequent extractions follow a geometric progression. The third draws a volume of 20.25 cm3 of liquid. a) b) c) Determine the common ratio of the geometric progression. Calculate the volume of liquid extracted in the tenth extraction. [2 marks] [2 marks] the value of the length of the longest piece [4 marks] [2 marks] . [3 marks] [2 marks] [2 marks] . The measurement of the side of each

Find the maximum number of squares that can be formed. Determine which square has a perimeter of Find the perimeter of the largest square .

If a container contains 140 cm3 of liquid, find the number of extractions needed to empty the container. [3 marks]

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SARAWAK ZON A 2009 11. a)

Diagram 8 A piece of wire is cut into 15 parts which are bent to form circles as shown in Diagram 8. The radius of each circle increases by consecutively. Calculate i) ii) b) the radius of the last circle the area of the last circle [2 marks] [1 mark]

Diagram 9 shows a rectangular geometric pattern.

Diagram 9 The first rectangle is ABCD and followed by MBNP and so on. The length and width of the next rectangle is half of the length and width of the previous rectangle. Given that AB = 30 cm and BC = 20 cm. Find the perimeter of the 7th rectangle. [3 marks]

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PAPER 2(SET 2) JOHOR 2008 1. Diagram 1 shows part of arrangement of bricks of equal size.

Diagram 1 The number of bricks in the lowest row is 4096 and the height of each brick is 4 cm. Edham built a wall by arranging bricks such that the number of bricks is half the number of its previous one until the number of bricks in the top most row is 1. Calculate a) b) the number of bricks in the 7th row, the height in cm, of the wall. [3 marks] [3 marks]

KELANTAN 2008 2. Diagram 2 shows a coil of wire is bent into a few semicircles, such that the radius of each subsequent semicircle increase by 1 unit.

Diagram 2 a) Show that the perimeter of each semicircle form an arithmetic progression and state the common difference. [3 marks]
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b)

[Use Given that i) ii)

] ,

determine which semicircle has the perimeter of 47.13, find the sum of the perimeter of the first 15 semi circles. [4 marks]

MELAKA 2008 3. A wire of length 380 cm is cut into ten pieces. Each piece is then bent to form a square. The dimensions of the first three smallest squares are shown in Diagram 3. a) Show that the perimeter of the squares form an arithmetic progression. State the common difference. [3 marks]

b) i) Find the perimeter of the tenth square in term of value of . Find the area of the eighth square. , hence find the [2 marks] [3 marks]

ii)

Diagram 3 NEGERI SEMBILAN 2008 4. Diagram 4 shows an equilateral triangle and the length of the side is cm.

Diagram 4
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The midpoints of each sides are joined to form a smaller equilateral triangle. The midpoints of the sides of the smaller triangle are again joined to form an equilateral triangle. This process is infinitely repeated. a) b) State the perimeter of the first three equilateral in terms of , Find, in terms of , i) ii) the perimeter of the seventh equilateral triangle [3 marks] [1 mark]

the sum to infinity the perimeter of the equilateral triangle that has been drawn. [2 marks]

PAHANG 2008 5. Tin is extracted from the mineral ore obtained from a mine in Pahang. During the first year of operation the ore obtained yields 8000 kg of tin. With the increasing difficulty of mining, the production of tin in each subsequent year shows a decrease of 10% on the previous years production. Assuming that mining continues in the same way for an indefinite period of time. Calculate, a) b) , the maximum amount of tin which could possibly be extracted.[3 marks] For economic reasons, mining will be abandoned once the annual output of tin falls below 1000 kg. Calculate the maximum number of complete years the mine will be in operation. [4 marks]

PERAK 2008 6. A circle is divided into sectors such that the angle subtended by each sector at the centre of the circle forms an arithmetic progression. Given that the smallest angle nd the largest angle is and respectively. Find a) b) the value of and the common difference, [4 marks] [3 marks]

the sum of the last 6 angles

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SARAWAK 2009 7. Diagram 5 shows a square with side of length cm was cut into four equal squares and then every square was cut into another four equal squares for the subsequent stages.

a cm

a cm

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3 Given that the sum of the perimeters of the squares in every stage form a geometric progression. a) If the sum of the perimeters of the squares cut in stage 10 is 10 240 cm, find the value of . [2 marks] Calculate the number of squares cut from stage 5 until stage 10. [4 marks]

b) SBP 2008 8.

Diagram 6 shows the particles A and B are projected simultaneously towards each other from the opposite end of a straight tube, 9 m long.

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Diagram 6 Particle A travels 47 cm in the 1st second, 45 cm in 2nd second, 43 cm in the 3rd second, etc. Particle B travels 25 cm in the 1st second, 24 cm in 2nd second, 23 cm in the 3rd second, etc. Find how long it takes for both particles to meet. SELANGOR 2008 9. Diagram 7 shows two particles, and , which are projected at the same time, in the same direction from one end , towards the other end , in a tunnel.
Q P

[6 marks]

Diagram 7 a) travels m in the first second and its distance travelled increases constantly by m for every subsequent second. It travels 22 m in the 7th second and the total distance travelled for the first 9 seconds is 162 m. Find the value of and . [5 marks] travels 4.5 m in the first second and its distance travelled increases constantly by 3 m every subsequent second.If is to reach the end of the tunnel at the same time as , find the distance of . [3 marks]

b)

WP 2008 10. Siti opens a saving account with an initial amount of RM 5000. The interest given is 3.5% per annum. a) Calculate the minimum number of years that it will take for Siti to have more in her savings. [4 marks]

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b) Siti plans to withdraw the money at the end of the fifteenth year. What is the total amount in her savings during that time? [2 marks]

SABAH 2008 11. The first three terms of a geometric progression are also the first, ninth and eleventh terms, respectively of an arithmetic progression.Given that all the term of the geometric progression are different, a) Given that all the term of the geometric progression are different,find the common ratio. [4 marks] If the sum to infinity of the geometric progression is 8, find i) ii) MRSM 2008 12. a) In a charity run, a participant gets a donation of RM20 for the first kilometre he runs, RM30 for the second kilometre, RM45 for the third kilometre and the donation increases according to a geometric progression for each subsequent kilometre. Find the minimum number of kilometres the participant has to run to get a total donation of more than RM500. [4 marks] b) By using geometric progression, express the recurring decimal 1.454545... as a fraction in its simplest form. [3 marks] the first term the common difference of the arithmetic progression. [4 marks]

b)

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PAPER 1 : ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION. 1. 2. Find the number of terms in the A.P , The first three terms of an A.P are and . . Find the value of [2 marks] 3. The first three terms of an A.P are (a) the value of 4. and . Find [2 marks]

(b) the sum of the first 10 terms of the progression. [4 marks] . Find [4 marks]

The first three terms of an A.P are (a) the value of

(b) the sum of the first 10 terms. and . Find

5.

The first three terms of an A.P are (a) the value of

(b) the sum from the 7th to the 11th terms

[3 marks]

6.

The first term of an A.P is 5 and the sum of the first eight terms of the progression is 208. Find (a) the common difference (b) the tenth term [4 marks] respectively. Given that the [3 marks] . Find [4 marks] . Find [3 marks] . Find the 4th term of [3 marks]
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The first term and the th term of an A.P are and sum of the first terms is , find the value of . The sum of the first n terms of an A.P is given by (a) the first term (b) the common difference

8.

9.

The sum of the first n terms of an A.P is given by (a) the common difference (b) the ninth term

10.

The sum of the first n terms of an A.P is given by the progression

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11. The first three terms of an A.P are and . Find

(a) the sixth term (b) the sum of the first seven terms after the sixth term[4 marks] 12. The 8th term of an A.P is twice of the 2nd term. The 11th term is 18. Find the first term and the common difference. [3 marks]

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