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Linear Sequences Questions MME

This document contains 6 questions about linear sequences. Each question provides the first few terms of a sequence and asks students to determine the term to term rule, write additional terms, and calculate terms based on their position or an nth term rule. Students are also asked to determine if given numbers could occur in a sequence and to perform calculations based on information provided about tables and chairs.

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Linear Sequences Questions MME

This document contains 6 questions about linear sequences. Each question provides the first few terms of a sequence and asks students to determine the term to term rule, write additional terms, and calculate terms based on their position or an nth term rule. Students are also asked to determine if given numbers could occur in a sequence and to perform calculations based on information provided about tables and chairs.

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Linear Sequences

1 Here are the 5 first terms of a linear sequence.

7, 11, 15, 19, 23

1(a) Write down the next two terms of the sequence.


[2 marks]

6th term = 7th term =

1(b) Give the term to term rule for the sequence.


[1 mark]

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2 The 𝑛𝑡ℎ term of a sequence can be found using,

2𝑛 + 2

where 𝑛 is the position in the sequence.

2(a) Write the first 5 terms of the sequence.


[2 marks]

Answer ______ , ______ , ______ , ______ , ______

2(b) Work out the 100𝑡ℎ term in this sequence.


[1 mark]

Answer

2(c) Explain why the number 155 will not occur in this sequence.
[1 mark]

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3 Here are the first 5 terms of a linear sequence,


5, 9, 13,17,21
3(a) Write down the next term of the sequence.
[1 mark]

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3(b) Find the 𝑛𝑡ℎ term of this sequence.


[2 marks]

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3(c) Hence, or otherwise, find the 47𝑡ℎ term in this sequence.


[1 mark]

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4 Here are the first 5 terms of a linear sequence.


3, 9, 15, 21, 27
4(a) Write down the next term of the sequence.
[1 mark]

Answer

4(b) Find the 𝑛𝑡ℎ term of this sequence.


[2 marks]

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4(c) Hence, or otherwise, find the 9𝑡ℎ term in this sequence.


[1 mark]

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5 The 𝑛𝑡ℎ term of a sequence can be found using


4𝑛 − 2
where n is the position in the sequence.
5(a) Write the first 5 terms of the sequence.
[2 marks]

Answer ______ , ______ , ______ , ______ , ______

5(b) Find the position number for the term with the value 82.
[2 marks]

Answer

5(c) Explain how you know whether the number 80 will occur in this sequence or not.
[1 mark]

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6 Each table can fit a maximum of four chairs. Once tables are pushed together the
chairs where the tables join can no longer be placed.

1 2 3

Key

Table Chair

The image above shows the layout of different numbers of tables with chairs.

6(a) Complete the table below with the correct number of chairs for tables.
[2 marks]

Tables 1 2 3 4

Chairs 4 6 _____ _____

6(b) Sara’s street party will need chairs for 115 people.
Chairs cost £2.00 each and tables cost £10.00.
Work out how many tables Sara will need and use this to calculate the total cost.
[4 marks]

Answer

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