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Question:

A person is to count 4500 currency notes. Let an denote the number of notes he counts in the nth minute. If a1 = a2 = ... = a10 = 150 and a10, a11, ... are in A.P. with common difference d, then the time taken by him to count all notes is?

34minutes

125minutes

24minutes

135minutes

Solution:

Till10thminutes number of counted notes=1500since,a1=a2=a3=a4=a5=a6=a7=a8=a9=a10=150