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Generating sequences worksheet — GCSE Foundation
Fifteen questions on "generating sequences" — DfE statement A23. Print it, or print three versions so neighbours cannot copy by letter; the key gives the letter for each version.
Generating sequences worksheet — GCSE Foundation
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- 1.The nth term of a sequence is 4n − 3. Work out the 7th term of the sequence.
- 2.A sequence has the position-to-term rule: the nth term is 3n. Write down the first four terms of the sequence.
- 3.Here are the first five terms of an arithmetic sequence: 2, 5, 8, 11, 14. Work out the 8th term.
- 4.A sequence has the position-to-term rule: the term is the position number multiplied by itself. Its first five terms are 1, 4, 9, 16, 25. Work out the 8th term.
- 5.A sequence begins at 50, and each term after that is found by subtracting 8 from the term before it. Priya says the 8th term of the sequence is negative. Is Priya correct?
- 6.A sequence has nth term 3n + 4. Two terms are missing from the list of its first five terms: 7, 10, _, 16, _. Work out the missing 3rd and 5th terms added together.
- 7.Which of these rules generates the sequence 6, 11, 16, 21, …?
- 8.A company's profit was £2000 in its first year. Each following year, the profit increases by £800. Work out the first year in which the profit is more than £7000.
- 9.Matchsticks are laid out as a row of squares, with each new square sharing a side with the square before it. The first square uses 4 matchsticks and every extra square uses 3 more. Work out how many matchsticks a row of 4 squares uses.
- 10.Write down the first four terms of the sequence with nth term 6n − 5.
- 11.A theatre's front row has 18 seats. Each row behind has 4 more seats than the row in front. Which row has exactly 62 seats?
- 12.Here are the first four terms of an arithmetic sequence: 5, 9, 13, 17. Work out the 5th term.
- 13.A geometric sequence has first term 5, and each term after that is 3 times the term before it. Work out the first term of the sequence that is greater than 1000.
- 14.A geometric sequence starts at 4, and each term after that is found by multiplying the term before it by 3. Write down the first four terms of the sequence.
- 15.The nth term of a sequence is 2n − 1. Work out the 6th term of the sequence.
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