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Jem pays money into a savings scheme, A, over a period of $300$ months. Jem pays £20 into scheme A in month 1, £20.50 in month 2, £21 in month 3 and so on, so that the amounts Jem pays each month form an arithmetic sequence.

(a) Show that Jem pays £69.50 into scheme A in month 100

(1)

(b) Find the total amount that Jem pays into scheme A over the period of $300$ months.

(2)

Kim pays money into a different savings scheme, B, over the same period of $300$ months. In a model, the amounts Kim pays into scheme B increase by the same percentage each month, so that the amounts Kim pays each month form a geometric sequence. Given that Kim pays

£20 into scheme B in month 1
£250 into scheme B in month 300

(c) use the model to calculate, to the nearest £10, the difference between the total amount paid into scheme A and the total amount paid into scheme B over the period of $300$ months.

(3)

解答

(a)

解法一

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scheme A 是等差数列，首项 $20$ ，公差 $0.5$ 。

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For scheme A,

\begin{align*} u_{100}=&\,20+(100-1)(0.5)\\ =&\,20+49.5\\ =&\,69.50. \end{align*}

So Jem pays £69.50 in month 100.

(b)

解法一

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用等差数列求和公式， $n=300$ 。

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\begin{align*} S_{300} =&\,\frac{300}{2}\{2(20)+(300-1)(0.5)\}\\ =&\,150(40+149.5)\\ =&\,28425. \end{align*}

So Jem pays a total of £28425.

(c)

解法一

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scheme B 是等比数列。由第 1 月和第 300 月求公比，再用等比数列前 $300$ 项和。

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Let the common ratio for scheme B be $r$ .

Since the first payment is £20 and the 300th payment is £250,

\begin{align*} 20r^{299}=&\,250\\ r=&\,\left(\frac{250}{20}\right)^{1/299}. \end{align*}

\begin{align*} r=1.008483032\ldots . \end{align*}

The total paid into scheme B is

\begin{align*} S_{300} =&\,\frac{20(1-r^{300})}{1-r}\\ =&\,27362.948\ldots . \end{align*}

The difference is

\begin{align*} 28425-27362.948\ldots =&\,1062.051\ldots . \end{align*}

To the nearest £10, the difference is

\begin{align*} \text{£}1060. \end{align*}

IAL 2024 Oct Q7

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(a)

解法一

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(b)

解法一

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(c)

解法一

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