11SL Final Review Algebra

Arithmetic Sequences and Series

1. The second and fifth terms of an arithmetic sequence are 40 and 121 respectively.
a. Find the first term and common difference of the sequence.
b. Find the sum of the first 25 terms

2. The first three terms of an arithmetic sequence are ( )
a. Find the value of the constant
b. Find the 16
th
term of the sequence
c. Find the sum of the first 20 terms

3. a. State the formula for the sum of the first natural numbers.
b. Find the sum of the natural numbers from 200 to 400 inclusive
c. Find the value of for which the sum of the first natural numbers is 4950

4. a. Find the sum of the integers between 1 and 500 that are divisible by 3.
b. Evaluate ( )

5. An arithmetic series has first term 6 and common difference 3.
a. Find the 20
th
term of the series.
b. Given that the sum of the first terms of the series is 270, find the value of .

6. Toms parents decide to pay him an allowance each month beginning on his 12
th
birthday.
The allowance is to be 40 for each of the first three months, 42 for each of the next three
months and so on, increasing by 2 per month after each three month period.
a. Find the total amount that Tom will receive in allowances before his 14
th
birthday.
b. Show that the total amount, in pounds, that Tom will receive in allowances in the
years after his 12
th
birthday, where is a positive integer, is given by ( ).

7. The first three terms of an arithmetic sequence are ( ) ( ) (

), where is a
constant.
a. Show that

.
b. Given also that the common difference of the series is positive, find the 15
th
term of
the series.

8. A publisher decides to start producing calendars. The publisher sells 2400 calendars during
the first year of production and forecasts that the number it will sell in subsequent years will
increase by 250 each year.
a. According to this forecast,
i. Find how many calendars the publisher will sell during the sixth year of
production.
ii. Show that the publisher will sell a total of 35,250 calendars during the first ten
years of production.
b. If the number of calendars sold in subsequent years increased by each year, instead
of by 250, find to the nearest unit the value of such that the publisher would sell a
total of 40,000 calendars during the first ten years of production.

9. The third term of an arithmetic series is -10 and the sum of the first eight terms of the series
is 16.
a. Find the first term and common difference of the series.
b. Find the smallest value of for which the term of the series is greater than 300.

Geometric Sequences and Series
10. The first three terms of a geometric sequence are ( ) ( ) ( ) where is a
positive constant.
a. Find the value of .
b. Find the sixth term of the sequence.
c. Show that the sum of the first ten terms of the sequence is 50,857.3 to 1 decimal
place.

11. The second and fifth terms of a geometric sequence are 75 and 129.6 respectively.
a. Show that the first term of the series is 62.5
b. Find the value of the tenth term of the series to 1 decimal place.
c. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the series to 1 decimal place.

12. The first term of a geometric series is 18 and the sum to infinity of the series is 15.
a. Find the common ratio of the series.
b. Find the third term of the series.
c. Find the exact difference between the sum of the first eight terms of the series and the
sum to infinity of the series.

13. The sum of the first and third terms of a geometric series is 150. The sum of the second and
fourth terms of the series is -75.
a. Find the first term and common ratio of the series.
b. Find the sum to infinity of the series.

14. When a ball is dropped onto a horizontal floor it bounces such that it reaches a maximum
height of 60% of the height from which it was dropped.
a. Find the maximum height the ball reaches after its fourth bounce when it is initially
dropped from 3 meters above the floor.
b. Show that when the ball is dropped form a height of h meters above the floor it
travels a total distance of 4h meters before coming to rest.

15. Ginny opens a savings account and decides to pay 200 into the account at the start of each
month. At the end of each month, interest of 0.5% is paid into the account.
a. Find to the nearest penny, the interest paid into the account at the end of the third
month.
b. Find the total interest paid into the account over the first 12 months to the nearest
penny.

16. In a computer game, each player must complete the tasks set at each level within a fixed
amount of time in order to progress to the next level. The time allowed for level 1 is 2
minutes and the time allowed for each of the other levels is 10% less than that allowed in the
previous level.
a. Find, in seconds, the time allowed for complete level 4
b. Find, in minutes and seconds, the maximum total time allowed for completing the
first 12 levels of the game.

17. The common ratio of a geometric series is 1.5 and the third term of the series is 18.
a. Find the first term of the series.
b. Find the sum of the first six terms of the series.
c. Find the smallest value of such that the th term of the series is greater than 8000.

Binomial Theorem
18. Expand the following:
a. ( )

b. (

19. Find the coefficient indicated in the following expansions:
a. ( )

b. (

20. Express ( )

in the form , where

21. Expand (

in ascending powers of up to and including the term in

, simplifying
each coefficient. Use this to obtain an estimate for

giving your answer to 5 decimal

places.

22. Expand (

in ascending powers of up to and including the term

. Hence, find the

coefficient of

in the expansion of ( ) (

23. The term independent of (constant term) in the expansion of (

is . Find the
value of the constant .

24. a. Expand ( )

in ascending powers of x, simplifying the coefficients.

b. Find the coefficient of

in the expansion of (

)( )

25. Given that (

( )

find the value of the constants and .

Exponents and Logarithms
26. Given that

and

, find expressions in terms of and for

a.

b.

c.

27. Find to an appropriate degree of accuracy, the values of for which
a.

b.

28. Given that

, find expressions in terms of for

a.

b.

c. Solve the equation:

29. An initial investment of $1000 is placed into a savings account that offers 2.2% interest every
3 months. The amount of money in the account, $P, at the end of years is given by

. Find to the nearest year, how long it will take for the investment to
double in value.

30. The diagram shows the curve with the equation (

a. Write down the coordinates of the point where the curve
crosses the y-axis.
b. The curve has an asymptote with equation .
Write down the value of the constant
c. Find the x-coordinate of the point where the curve crosses
the x-axis



31. Given that

, write down expressions in terms of for

a.

b.

c. Hence, solve the equation

)

32. Find the value of for which

( )

( )

33. A colony of fast-breeding fish is introduced into a large, newly-built pond. The number of
fish in the pond, n, after t weeks is modeled by

a. Find the initial number of fish in the pond.
Give that there are 3600 fish in the pond after 3 weeks, use this model to
b. Show that

c. Find the time taken for the initial population of fish to double in size, giving your
answer to the nearest day.

34. Solve each equation, giving your answers correct to 2 decimal places.
a.

b. ( )

35. Giving your answers in exact form, solve the equations
a. ( )
b.

36. A scientist carries out an experiment to investigate the growth of a population of flies. She
introduces a colony of flies into a closed environment and uses the model that after t days the
number of flies in the environment, N, is given by

. Find according to this

model,
a. the number of flies introduced into the environment
b. the size of the population after 20 days
c. the least number of days after which the population will exceed 2000

37. A bead is projected vertically upwards in a jar of liquid with a velocity of

. Its
velocity,

, at time seconds after projection, is given by

a. Find the value of
Given that the bead has velocity of

after 5.1 seconds, find

b. the value of correct to 4 decimal places
c. the time taken for its velocity to decrease from

to