QUARTER 1

FINDING SEVERAL TERMS OF A

SEQUENCES SEQUENCE GIVEN THE GENERAL TERM

Sequence – a particular order in which related events follow Example: Find the first three terms of the sequence
each other in a specific pattern or function. Each member or
𝑎𝑛 = 2𝑛 + 1.
element is called a term.

Activity 1: What’s Next?

Activity 2: Term after Term
Each item below shows a pattern. Answer the given questions.
Find the first 5 terms of the sequence given the nth term.
1. What is the next shape?

2. What is the next number?

What is the 10th number?
0, 4, 8, 12, 16, ____

3. What is the next number?

What is the 8th number?
9, 4, -1, -6, -11, ____ FINDING THE GENERAL TERM OR Nth
TERM, GIVEN SEVERAL TERMS
4. What is the next number?
What is the 12th number? Example:
1, 3, 9, 27, 81, _____
1. Write the general term or 𝑛𝑡ℎ term of the sequence 5, 12,
5. What is the next number? 19, 26, 33, …
What is the 7th number?
160, 80, 40, 20, 10, _____ 2. Find the nth term of a quadratic sequence 9, 18, 31, 48,
69,… of the form 𝑎𝑛2 + 𝑏𝑛 + 𝑐.

The set of shapes and the sets of numbers in the above activity
are called sequences. Activity 3: Getting to Know You

Classification of Sequences: What is the nth term for each sequence below?

1. Finite Sequence – is a list of terms in a specific order. It has 1. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...

a first term and a last term.
2. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, ...
Ex: a. Set of prime numbers below 10
b. 3, -1, 1.5, 10, 𝜋 3. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ...

2. Infinite Sequence – is a sequence that contains infinitely 4. -1, 1, -1, 1, -1, ...
many terms. It will never end. 1 1 1 1
5. 1, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , …
Ex: a. Set of natural numbers
b. 4, 7, 10, 13 ...

ARITHMETIC SEQUENCE Activity 4: What is Missing?

Find the missing terms in each arithmetic sequence.

ARITHMETIC SEQUENCE is a sequence where every term
after the first is obtained by adding a constant called the 1. 3, 12, 21, __, __, __
common difference.
2. 8, 3, −2 , __, __
Example: 1, 4, 7, 10, …
15, 11, 7, 3, … 3. 5, 12, __, 26, __

4. 2, __, 20, 29, __

GENERAL RULE:
5. __, 4, 10, 16, __
The first n terms of an arithmetic sequence with 𝑎1 as first term
6. 17, 14, __, __, 5
and d as common difference are:
7. 4, __, __, 19, 24, ...

8. __, __, __, 8, 12, 16

If 𝑎1 and d are known, it is easy to find any term in an
arithmetic sequence by using the rule: 9. −1, __, __, __, 31, 39

𝒂𝒏 = 𝒂𝟏 + (𝒏 − 𝟏)𝒅. 10. 13, __, __, __, -11, -17

 𝑥 𝑥
ARITHMETIC MEANS - the terms between any two 9. 3x, x, 3 , 9 , …
nonconsecutive terms of an arithmetic sequence.
10. 9.5, 7.5, 5.5, 3.5, …
Examples:

1. Insert 3 arithmetic means between 8 and 26.

2. Insert 4 arithmetic means between 5 and 25. EVALUATION

3. Find three terms between 2 and 34 of an arithmetic

sequence.
Activity 7: More on Arithmetic Sequences

Use the nth term of an arithmetic sequence to answer the

SUM OF ARITHMETIC SEQUENCE FORMULA following questions: 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑎1 + (𝑛 − 1)𝑑
𝒏
𝑺𝒏 = (𝒂𝟏 + 𝒂𝒏 ) 1. Find the 25th term of the arithmetic sequence 3, 7, 11, 15,
𝟐
19,...
OR
2. The second term of an arithmetic sequence is 24 and the
𝒏 fifth term is 3. Find the first term and the common difference.
𝑺𝒏 = [𝟐𝒂𝟏 + (𝒏 − 𝟏)𝒅]
𝟐
3. Give the arithmetic sequence of 5 terms if the first term is 8
and the last term is 100.
Examples:
4. Find the 9th term of the arithmetic sequence with a1 = 10
1
1. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the arithmetic sequence and d = -2.
5, 9, 13, 17, …
5. Find a1 if a8 = 54 and a9 = 60.
2. What is the sum of the arithmetic series 11 + 17 + 23 + … +
125? 6. How many terms are there in an arithmetic sequence with a
common difference of 4 and with first and last terms 3 and 59,
3. Find the sum of the positive integers between 1 and 50 that respectively?
is divisible by 3.
7. Which term of the arithmetic sequence is −18, given that
4. How many terms of the arithmetic sequence 7, 13, 19, …
a1 = 7 and a2 = 2?
must be added to obtain a sum of 340?
8. How many terms are in an arithmetic sequence whose first
term is -3, common difference is 2, and last term is 23?
Activity 5: Summing Up
9. What must be the value of k so that 5k-3, k +2, and 3k- 11
What is the sum of the terms of each finite sequence below? will form an arithmetic sequence?

1. 1, 4, 7, 10 10. Find the common difference of the arithmetic sequence

with a4= 10 and a11 = 45.
2. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11

3. 10, 5, 0, -5, -10, -15

4. 81, 64, 47, 30, 13, -4

Activity 8: What can You Insert?
5. -2, -5, -8, -11, -14, -17
A. Insert the indicated number of arithmetic means between
the given first and last terms of an arithmetic sequence.
EXERCISES 1. 2 and 32 [1]
Activity 6: How well Do You Know Me? 2. 6 and 54 [3]
Which of the following sequences is an arithmetic sequence? 3. 68 and 3 [4]
Why?
4. 10 and 40 [5]
1. 3, 7, 11, 15, 19
1
5. 2 and 2 [2]
2. 4, 16, 64, 256
3. 48, 24, 12, 6, 3, ... 6. –4 and 8 [3]
4. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36 7. –16 and –8 [3]
1 1
5. 1, 2 , 0, − 2 1 11
8. 3 and 33 [4]
6. − 2, 4, -8, 16, ...
9. a and b [1]
7. 1, 0, −1, −2, −3
1 1 1 1
10. x+ y + and 4x – 2y [2]
8. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , …
B. Solve the following problems. 3. It is alarming that many people now are being infected by
HIV. As the president of the student body in your school, you
1. The arithmetic mean between two terms in an arithmetic
invited people to give a five-day series of talks on HIV and its
sequence is 39. If one of these terms is 32, find the other term.
prevention every first Friday of the month from 12 noon to 1
2. If five arithmetic means are inserted between −9 and 9, p.m. in the auditorium. On the first day, 20 students came.
what is the third mean? Finding the talk interesting, these 20 students shared the talk
to other students and 10 more students came on the second
3. What are the first and last terms of an arithmetic sequence day, another 10 more students came on the third day, and so
when its arithmetic means are 35, 15, and −5? on.
4. Find the value of x if the arithmetic mean of 3 and 3x +5 is 8. a. Assuming that the number of participants
continues to increase in the same manner, make a table
5. Find the value of a when the arithmetic mean of a + 7 and
representing the number of participants from day 1 of the talk
a + 3 is 3a+ 9.
until day 5.

b. Represent the data in the table using a formula.

Use the formula to justify your data in the table.

Activity 9: SUMthing To Do c. You feel that there is still a need to extend the
series of talks, so you decided to continue it for three more
A. Find the sum of each of the following. days. If the pattern continues where there are 10 additional
students for each talk, how many students in all attended the
1. integers from 1 to 50
talk on HIV?
2. odd integers from 1 to 100

3. even integers between 1 and 101

4. After knee surgery, your trainer tells you to return to your
4. first 25 terms of the arithmetic sequence 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, ... jogging program slowly. He suggests jogging for 12 minutes
each day for the first week. Each week, thereafter, he suggests
5. multiples of 3 from 15 to 45 that you increase that time by 6 minutes per day. On what
6. numbers between 1 and 81 which are divisible by 4 week will it be before you are up to jogging 60 minutes per
day?
7. first 20 terms of the arithmetic sequence –16, –20, –24, …

8. first 10 terms of the arithmetic sequence 10.2, 12.7, 15.2,

17.7, …

9. 1 + 5 + 9 + … + 49 + 53
1 3 5 17 19
10. 2 + + +⋯+ +
2 2 2 2

B. The sum of the first 10 terms of an arithmetic sequence is

530. What is the first term if the last term is 80? What is the
common difference?

C. The third term of an arithmetic sequence is –12 and the

seventh term is 8. What is the sum of the first 10 terms?

D. Find the sum of the first 25 multiples of 8.

E. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the arithmetic sequence

whose general term is an = 3n + 5.

Activity 10: Beyond the Basics

Do each of the following.

1. Mathematically speaking, the next term cannot be

determined by giving only the first finite number of terms of a
general sequence. Explain this fact by giving an example.

2. Make a concept map for arithmetic sequences.