PREPARED BY : GAURAV SIR (M1) MPS-6 SNS

1. If fourth term of an HP is 3/5 and its 8th term is 1/3, then its first term is–
(A) 2/3 (B) 3/2 (C) 1/4 (D) None of these

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2. The fifth term of the H.P. 2, 2 , 3 ,..... will be-
2 3
1 1 1
(A) 5 (B) 3 (C) (D) 10
5 5 10

3. If the mth term of a H.P. be n and nth term be m, then the rth term will be-
r mn mn mn
(A) (B) (C) (D)
mn r 1 r r 1

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4. If a, b, c are in H.P., then  is equal to
ba bc
1 1 1 1 1 1
(a)  (b)  (c)  (d) none of these
a b a c b c

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5. If first 3 terms of the sequence ,a,b, are in GP and last 3 terms are in HP, find ‘a’ and ‘b’ are?
16 6
4 3 1 1 1 1 4
(a) , (b) , (c)  , 1 (d) ,
7 4 9 12 4 12 9

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6. If a, x, b are in H.P. and a, y, z, b are in G.P., then the value of is
x( y  z 3 )
3

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(a) (b) ab (c) 2ab (d) ab
2ab 2

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7. If x   a n , y   b n , z   c n , where a, b & c are in AP and | a | 1, | b | 1 & | c | 1 , then
n 0 n 0 n 0

x, y & z are in
(a) AP (b) GP (c) HP (d) None

(Hint : Here 
n 0
simply means summation of terms when n varies from 0 to infinity, so

n
a  a 0  a1  a 2  .....   )
n 0

8. Let a1, a2, ..... a10 be in A.P. and h1, h2, ...h10 be in H.P. If a1 = h1 = 2 and a10 = h10 = 3, then a4 h7 is-
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 [IIT-1999]

9. If b + c, c + a, a + b are in H. P., then a2, b2, c2 are in

(a) A.P. (b) G.P. (c) H.P. (d) none of these

10. If are in H.P. then is/are equal to

(A) (B)

(C) (D)
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Answers : 1.b 2.d 3.c 4.b 5.c 6.a 7.c 8.d 9.a 10.ab 11.d