9
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3
The first three diagrams in a sequence are shown above.
The diagrams are made up of dots and lines. Each line is one centimetre long.
(a) Make a sketch of the next diagram in the sequence. [1]
(b) The table below shows some information about the diagrams.
Diagram 1 2 3 4 --------- n
Area 1 4 9 16 --------- x
Number of dots 4 9 16 p --------- y
Number of one centimetre lines 4 12 24 q --------- z
(i) Write down the values of p and q. [2]
(ii) Write down each of x, y and z in terms of n. [4]
(c) The total number of one centimetre lines in the first n diagrams is given by the expression
2 n3 + fn2 + gn.
3
(i) Use n = 1 in this expression to show that f + g = 10 . [1]
3
(ii) Use n = 2 in this expression to show that 4f + 2g = 32 . [2]
3
(iii) Find the values of f and g. [3]
(iv) Find the total number of one centimetre lines in the first 10 diagrams. [1]
10
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36
x b c
A 3 by 3 square can be chosen from the 6 by 6 grid above.
d e f
g h i
8 9 10
(a) One of these squares is .
14 15 16
20 21 22
In this square, x = 8, c = 10, g = 20 and i = 22.
For this square, calculate the value of
(i) (i − x) − (g − c), [1]
(ii) cg − xi. [1]
(b)
x b c
d e f
g h i
(i) c = x + 2. Write down g and i in terms of x. [2]
(ii) Use your answers to part(b)(i) to show that (i − x) − (g − c) is constant. [1]
(iii) Use your answers to part(b)(i) to show that cg − xi is constant. [2]
(c) The 6 by 6 grid is replaced by a 5 by 5 grid as shown.
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25
x b c
A 3 by 3 square can be chosen from the 5 by 5 grid.
d e f
g h i
For any 3 by 3 square chosen from this 5 by 5 grid, calculate the value of
(i) (i − x) − (g − c), [1]
(ii) cg − xi. [1]
(d) A 3 by 3 square is chosen from an n by n grid.
(i) Write down the value of (i − x) − (g − c). [1]
(ii) Find g and i in terms of x and n. [2]
(iii) Find cg − xi in its simplest form. [1]
11 For
Examiner's
Use
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4
The first four terms in a sequence are 1, 3, 6 and 10.
They are shown by the number of dots in the four diagrams above.
(a) Write down the next four terms in the sequence.
Answer(a) , , , [2]
(b) (i) The sum of the two consecutive terms 3 and 6 is 9.
The sum of the two consecutive terms 6 and 10 is 16.
Complete the following statements using different pairs of terms.
The sum of the two consecutive terms and is .
The sum of the two consecutive terms and is . [1]
(ii) What special name is given to these sums?
Answer(b)(ii) [1]
n( n +1)
(c) (i) The formula for the nth term in the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10… is ,
k
where k is an integer.
Find the value of k.
Answer(c)(i) k = [1]
(ii) Test your formula when n = 4, showing your working. For
Examiner's
Use
Answer (c)(ii)
[1]
(iii) Find the value of the 180th term in the sequence.
Answer(c)(iii) [1]
(d) (i) Show clearly that the sum of the nth and the (n + 1)th terms is (n + 1)2.
Answer (d)(i)
[3]
(ii) Find the values of the two consecutive terms which have a sum of 3481.
Answer(d)(ii) and [2]
For
11 Examiner's
Use
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4
1 white dot 4 white dots 9 white dots 16 white dots
5 black dots 7 black dots 9 black dots 11 black dots
6 lines 14 lines 26 lines 42 lines
The four diagrams above are the first four of a pattern.
(a) Diagram 5 has been started below.
Complete this diagram and write down the information about the numbers of dots and lines.
Diagram 5
............... white dots
............... black dots
............... lines
[4]
For
(b) Complete the information about the number of dots and lines in Diagram 8. Examiner's
Use
Answer(b) white dots
black dots
lines [3]
(c) Complete the information about the number of dots in Diagram n.
Give your answers in terms of n.
Answer(c) white dots
black dots [2]
(d) The number of lines in diagram n is k(n2 + n +1).
Find
(i) the value of k,
Answer(d)(i) k = [1]
(ii) the number of lines in Diagram 100.
Answer(d)(ii) [1]
For
10 Examiner's
Use
The diagrams show some polygons and their diagonals.
(a) Complete the table.
Number of sides Name of polygon Total number of diagonals
3 triangle 0
4 quadrilateral 2
5 5
6 hexagon 9
7 heptagon 14
[3]
(b) Write down the total number of diagonals in
(i) a decagon (a 10-sided polygon),
Answer(b)(i) [1]
(ii) a 12-sided polygon.
Answer(b)(ii) [1]
For
1 Examiner's
(c) A polygon with n sides has a total of n ( n − q ) diagonals, where p and q are integers. Use
p
(i) Find the values of p and q.
Answer(c)(i) p =
q= [3]
(ii) Find the total number of diagonals in a polygon with 100 sides.
Answer(c)(ii) [1]
(iii) Find the number of sides of a polygon which has a total of 170 diagonals.
Answer(c)(iii) [2]
(d) A polygon with n + 1 sides has 30 more diagonals than a polygon with n sides.
Find n.
Answer(d) n = [1]
For
10 Examiner's
Use
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4
The diagrams show squares and dots on a grid.
Some dots are on the sides of each square and other dots are inside each square.
The area of the square (shaded) in Diagram 1 is 1 unit2.
(a) Complete Diagram 4 by marking all the dots. [1]
(b) Complete the columns in the table below for Diagrams 4, 5 and n.
Diagram 1 2 3 4 5 ------- n
Number of units of area 1 4 9 -------
Number of dots inside the
1 5 13 ------- (n − 1)2 + n2
square
Number of dots on the sides
4 8 12 -------
of the square
Total number of dots 5 13 25 -------
[7]
For
(c) For Diagram 200, find the number of dots Examiner's
Use
(i) inside the square,
Answer(c)(i) [1]
(ii) on the sides of the square.
Answer(c)(ii) [1]
(d) Which diagram has 265 dots inside the square?
Answer(d) [1]
9 The table shows some terms of several sequences.
Term 1 2 3 4 8
Sequence P 7 5 3 1 p
Sequence Q 1 8 27 64 q
1 2 3 4
Sequence R 5 r
2 3 4
Sequence S 4 9 16 25 s
Sequence T 1 3 9 27 t
Sequence U 3 6 7 −2 u
(a) Find the values of p, q, r, s, t and u. [6]
(b) Find the nth term of sequence
(i) P, [1]
(ii) Q, [1]
(iii) R, [1]
(iv) S, [1]
(v) T, [1]
(vi) U. [1]
(c) Which term in sequence P is equal to −777? [2]
(d) Which term in sequence T is equal to 177 147? [2]
10 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ……………………………. + n = n(n +1)
2
(a) (i) Show that this formula is true for the sum of the first 8 natural numbers. [2]
(ii) Find the sum of the first 400 natural numbers. [1]
(b) (i) Show that 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + ………………... + 2n = n(n + 1). [1]
(ii) Find the sum of the first 200 even numbers. [1]
(iii) Find the sum of the first 200 odd numbers. [1]
(c) (i) Use the formula at the beginning of the question to find the sum of the first 2n natural
numbers. [1]
(ii) Find a formula, in its simplest form, for
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + …………………... + (2n – 1).
Show your working. [2]
10 For
Examiner
Total Use
Row 1 1 = 1
Row 2 3 + 5 = 8
Row 3 7 + 9 + 11 = 27
Row 4 13 + 15 + 17 + 19 = 64
Row 5
Row 6
The rows above show sets of consecutive odd numbers and their totals.
(a) Complete Row 5 and Row 6. [2]
(b) What is the special name given to the numbers 1, 8, 27, 64…?
Answer(b) [1]
(c) Write down in terms of n,
(i) how many consecutive odd numbers there are in Row n,
Answer(c)(i) [1]
(ii) the total of these numbers.
Answer(c)(ii) [1]
(d) The first number in Row n is given by n2 − n + 1.
Show that this formula is true for Row 4.
Answer(d)
(e) The total of Row 3 is 27. This can be calculated by (3 × 7) + 2 + 4. F
Exam
U
The total of Row 4 is 64. This can be calculated by (4 × 13) + 2 + 4 + 6.
The total of Row 7 is 343. Show how this can be calculated in the same way.
Answer(e)
[1]
(f) The total of the first n even numbers is n(n + 1).
Write down a formula for the total of the first (n – 1) even numbers.
Answer(f) [1]
(g) Use the results of parts (d), (e) and (f) to show clearly that the total of the numbers in Row n
gives your answer to part (c)(ii).
Answer(g)
[2]
9 (a) The first five terms P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5 of a sequence are given below. For
Examiner's
Use
1 = 1 = P1
1+2 = 3 = P2
1+2+3 = 6 = P3
1+2+3+4 = 10 = P4
1+2+3+4+5 = 15 = P5
(i) Write down the next term, P6, in the sequence 1, 3, 6, 10, 15…
Answer(a)(i) [1]
(ii) The formula for the nth term of this sequence is
1
Pn = n(n + 1).
2
Show this formula is true when n = 6.
Answer (a)(ii)
[1]
(iii) Use the formula to find P50, the 50th term of this sequence.
Answer(a)(iii) [1]
(iv) Use your answer to part (iii) to find 3 + 6 + 9 + 12 +15 + ………… + 150.
Answer(a)(iv) [1]
(v) Find 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 +………… + 150.
Answer(a)(v) [1]
(vi) Use your answers to parts (iv) and (v) to find the sum of the numbers less than 150 which
are not multiples of 3.
(b) The first five terms, S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 of a different sequence are given below.
(1 × 1) = 1 = S1
(1 × 2) + (2 × 1) = 4 = S2
(1 × 3) + (2 × 2) + (3 × 1) = 10 = S3
(1 × 4) + (2 × 3) + (3 × 2) + (4 × 1) = 20 = S4
(1 × 5) + (2 × 4) + (3 × 3) + (4 × 2) + (5 × 1) = 35 = S5
(i) Work out the next term, S6, in the sequence 1, 4, 10, 20, 35…
Answer(b)(i) [2]
(ii) The formula for the nth term of this sequence is
1
Sn = n(n + 1)(n + 2).
6
Show this formula is true for n = 6.
Answer(b)(ii)
[1]
(iii) Find (1 × 20) + (2 × 19) + (3 × 18) ………… + (20 × 1) .
Answer(b)(iii) [1]
(c) Show that S6 – S5 = P6, where P6 is your answer to part (a)(i).
Answer(c)
[1]
1
(d) Show by algebra that Sn – Sn – 1 = Pn . [Pn = n(n + 1)]
2
Answer(d)
10 In all the following sequences, after the first two terms, the rule is to add the previous two terms to Fo
find the next term. Exami
Us
(a) Write down the next two terms in this sequence.
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 [1]
(b) Write down the first two terms of this sequence.
3 11 14 [2]
(c) (i) Find the value of d and the value of e.
2 d e 10
Answer(c)(i) d =
e= [3]
(ii) Find the value of x, the value of y and the value of z.
O33 x y z 18
Answer(c)(ii) x =
y=
z= [5]
11 For
Examin
Use
Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 Diagram 4
The first four Diagrams in a sequence are shown above.
Each Diagram is made from dots and one centimetre lines.
The area of each small square is 1 cm2.
(a) Complete the table for Diagrams 5 and 6.
Diagram 1 2 3 4 5 6
Area (cm2) 2 6 12 20
Number of dots 6 12 20 30
Number of one centimetre lines 7 17 31 49
[4]
(b) The area of Diagram n is n(n + 1) cm2.
(i) Find the area of Diagram 50.
Answer(b)(i) cm2 [1]
(ii) Which Diagram has an area of 930 cm2?
Answer(b)(ii) [1]
(c) Find, in terms of n, the number of dots in Diagram n.
(d) The number of one centimetre lines in Diagram n is 2n 2 + pn + 1 .
E
(i) Show that p = 4.
Answer(d)(i)
[2]
(ii) Find the number of one centimetre lines in Diagram 10.
Answer(d)(ii) [1]
(iii) Which Diagram has 337 one centimetre lines?
Answer(d)(iii) [3]
(e) For each Diagram, the number of squares of area 1 cm2 is A, the number of dots is D and the
number of one centimetre lines is L.
Find a connection between A, D and L that is true for each Diagram.
