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WJEC A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 4.5 Arithmetic sequences and series, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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All 6 questions on Arithmetic sequences and series, as a list
- Summer 2025, Unit 3, Q7 (5 marks): 7. The first and last terms of an arithmetic series are –3 and 61 respectively. The sum of all of the terms is 957. Determine (a) the number of terms, [2] (b) t
- Summer 2024, Unit 3, Q7 (7 marks): 7. Showing all your working, evaluate 50 4 r 5 (a) , [4] r 3
- Summer 2023, Unit 3, Q1 (5 marks): 1 The 12th term of an arithmetic series is 41 and the sum of the first 16 terms is 488. Find the first term and the common difference of the series. [5]
- Summer 2022, Unit 3, Q6 (5 marks): 6 Geraint opens a savings account. He deposits £10 in the first month. In each subsequent month, the amount he deposits is 20 pence greater than the amount he d
- Summer 2019, Unit 3, Q8 (11 marks): 8 a) The 3rd, 19th and 67th terms of an arithmetic sequence form a geometric sequence. Given that the arithmetic sequence is increasing and that the first term
- Summer 2018, Unit 3, Q8 (5 marks): 8 Find seven numbers which are in arithmetic progression such that the last term is 71 and the sum of all of the numbers is 329. [5]
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