Directorate of Education, GNCT Of Delhi
Subject: Mathematics Worksheet No: 19 Date: 17 August ,2020
Class: X Name of the Student: _____________ Name of the Class Teacher: ________
Sum of First n Terms of an AP
Teacher: Students! the dates 1,2,3,4----shown in the calendar are Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
in A.P. Can you tell the sums of numbers present in first and
second rows? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Seema:1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28 & 8+9+10+11+12+13+14=77 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Teacher: Very Good! Let’s try to find the sum of all numbers
shown in the calendar. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30
Sum of First n Terms of an AP
Sum of the numbers in the calendar ⇒ S=1+2+3+4+5+ . . . +26+27+28+29+30
Rewriting the terms in reverse order ⇒ S=30+29+28+27+26+ . . .+5+4+3+2+1
Adding these two, we get 2S= (1+30) +(2+29) +(3+28) + . . .+(28+3) +(29+2) +(30+1)
⇒ 2S=31+31+31+31+31+ . . . + 31+31+31+31+31 (30 Times)
𝟑𝟎×𝟑𝟏
⇒ S= =15× 𝟑𝟏 =465, i.e. the sum=465
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The sum of the first n terms of an AP: a, a+d, a+2d……...[a+(n-1) d] by above method
2S= 𝑛[ 2𝑎 + (𝑛 − 1)𝑑] ⇒ 𝐒 =
𝒏 𝑛 𝒏
[2a+(n-1) d] or S = [a +a+(n-1) d] or 𝐒 = [a +an]
𝟐 2 𝟐
𝒏
If there are only n terms in an AP, then an = l =the last term , and 𝐒 = [a + l ]
𝟐
Example: Find the sum of the first 22 terms of the AP:8,3, -2 . . .
Solution: Here a= 8, d =3-8=-5 and n=22
𝑛
We know that S =
22
[2a+(n-1) d] = [16+21(-5)] =11(16-105) =11(-89) = -979.
2 2
So, the sum of the first 22 terms of the AP is -979.
Question1. Find the sum of: Question 2. Find the sum of the Question3.Find the sum of first
the first 1000 positive integers. first 15 multiples of 8. 22 terms of an AP in which d=7
and 22nd term is 149.
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