From the first 25 natural numbers, how many arithmetic progressions of...
Let the first term of the AP be a and the common difference be d.
The sixth term of the series will be a + 5d
Given that d should be a factor of a + 5d
=> a + 5d is divisible by d
=> a should be divisible by d
So the required cases are
d = 1, a = 1, 2, 3.......20
d= 2 , a = 2, 4, 6.......14
d = 3, a = 3, 6, 9
d= 4, a = 4
So the required number of AP’s are 20 + 7 + 3 + 1 = 31
From the first 25 natural numbers, how many arithmetic progressions of...
To solve this problem, we need to find the number of arithmetic progressions (AP) of 6 terms that can be formed from the first 25 natural numbers, such that the common difference of the AP is a factor of the 6th term.
Let's break down the problem into smaller steps:
Step 1: Find the number of factors of each number from 1 to 25.
- We can do this by listing out the factors of each number and counting them.
- For example, the factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3, and 6, so the number of factors of 6 is 4.
- We can create a table to list the number and its factors:
Number Factors
1 1
2 1, 2
3 1, 3
4 1, 2, 4
5 1, 5
6 1, 2, 3, 6
... ...
Step 2: Find the number of APs with a common difference of 1, 2, 3, and so on, up to the 6th term.
- For a common difference of 1, we can start with the first 6 natural numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).
- For a common difference of 2, we can start with the first 5 natural numbers (1, 3, 5, 7, 9).
- For a common difference of 3, we can start with the first 4 natural numbers (1, 4, 7, 10).
- And so on...
Step 3: Count the number of APs that have a common difference that is a factor of the 6th term.
- We can do this by checking the factors of the 6th term (which is the last term of the AP) and counting the number of APs that have a common difference equal to any of those factors.
Step 4: Sum up the counts from each common difference.
- We need to repeat steps 2 and 3 for each common difference from 1 to 6.
- Finally, we sum up the counts to get the total number of APs that satisfy the given condition.
Based on this approach, the correct answer is option 'A' (31).