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1.4 Sequences and Series

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Question 96
a.

An environmental group plants saplings in a reforestation zone. The number of saplings planted each week follows an arithmetic progression. In week 5, 38 saplings are planted. The total number of saplings planted across the first 12 weeks is S12=510S_{12} = 510S12​=510. Determine the number of saplings planted in week 1 and the common difference of the progression.

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b.

In a second reforestation zone, saplings are also planted weekly in an arithmetic progression. In the first week, 86 saplings are planted, and the number of saplings planted decreases by 5 each week. The sum of the first nnn terms of this second progression is TnT_nTn​. Let SnS_nSn​ be the sum of the first nnn terms of the first progression from part (a). Find the value of nnn such that Tn=SnT_n = S_nTn​=Sn​, where n>0n > 0n>0.

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1.4 Sequences and Series Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Maths
  3. /1.4 Sequences and Series

308 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Maths 1.4 Sequences and Series, covering 1.4.1 Binomial expansion for positive integer n, 1.4.2 Link to binomial probabilities, 1.4.3 Binomial expansion for rational n (A-level only), 1.4.4 Validity of the expansion (A-level only), 1.4.5 Sequences (A-level only), 1.4.6 Increasing, decreasing and periodic sequences (A-level only), 1.4.7 Sigma notation (A-level only), 1.4.8 Arithmetic sequences and series (A-level only), 1.4.9 Geometric sequences and series (A-level only), 1.4.10 Sum to infinity of a geometric series (A-level only), and 1.4.11 Modelling with sequences and series (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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