Name : _____________

Additional Mathematics
Form ：5 _________ Monthly Test ( FEBRUARY ) Marks ________

PAPER 1

1. The 8th term and 53th term of an -62 arithmetic progression are 118 and
respectively.
Find
(a) the first term ,
(b) the common difference . [3 marks]

1 1 2. The sum of the first n terms of

,1,3,.........is 364 .
3 3 the geometric progression
(a) State the
common ratio of the progression.
(b) Find the value of n . [4 marks]

3. The first three terms of an arithmetic of sequence are 3 , x , 12 .

Find the positive value of x so that the sequence is
(a) an arithmetic progression .
(b) a geometric progression. [4 marks]

6. Express the recurring decimal 0.42424242....... as a fraction in its simplest form.

[4 marks]
9. The 9th term of an arithmetic 7 p - 10 progression is 4 + 5p and the sum of the first
four terms of the progression is , where p is a constant .
Given that the common difference of the progression is 5 , find the value of p .
[3 marks]

11. The sum of the first n terms of an 3n 2 - 5n

arithmetric progression is .
Find
(a) the second term
(b) the common difference [3 marks]

12. Faiz walks a distance of 60 m during the first minute, 56 m during the second minute, 52 m
during the third minute and so on .
Calculate the distance covered by Faiz during the tenth minute. [2 marks]
PAPER 2
14. Two companies , Delta and Omega , start to sell cars at the same time.

(a) Delta sells k cars in the first month and its sales increase constantly by m cars every
subsequent month . It sells 240 cars in the 8th month and the total sales for the first 10
months are 1 900 cars .
Find the value of k and of m . [5 marks]

(b) Omega sells 80 cars in the first month and its sales increase constantly by 22 cars
every subsequent month. If both companies sell the same number of cars in the nth month ,
find the value of n.
[2 marks]