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Almost 90% of the companies include quantitative aptitude section in their placement tests. Since the time given would be limited it is important you remember formulas. They are sure to help you by saving a lot of time.

Arithmetic and Geometric Progression

Companies like TCS, HCL, Wipro, Accenture etc. and a lot of other companies include at least a couple of questions from arithmetic and geometric progressions.

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Questions like find a missing number, fill the missing dash etc., would generally be from AP and GP sections. Though they might look hard to solve at first glance, they are very easy to tackle if you remember few miscellaneous formulas.

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Arithmetic Progression

Definition: If each term of a series differs from its preceding term by a constant, then such a progression is called arithmetic progression.

e.g: 2,5,8,11

In the above sequence the difference between any two terms in 3.

Formula:

Consider an AP : a, (a + d), (a + 2d), (a + 3d),(a + 4d),....

1) n th term of the above sequence = Tn = a + (n - 1)d

2) Sum to n no of terms Sn = n / 2 (2a + (n - 1)d)

3) Another formula for Sn = n / 2 (first term + last term)

Geometric Progression.

Definition: Any progression or sequence with successive terms having a common ration is called geometric progression.

e.g: 2,4,8,16...

In the above sequence the common ratio is 2 for any two successive terms

Formula

Consider a GP - a, ar, ar2.... where a is the first term and r is the common ratio

4) n th term, Tn = arn-1

5) Sum to n terms , Sn = a(1 - rn)/(1-r)

6) In case r lies beween -1 and +1 then Sum of all terms of the series = a/(1 - r)

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