Edexcel Paper 1 Specimen — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModulePaper 1 (Paper 1)
SessionSpecimen
TopicArithmetic Sequences and Series

  1. A sequence of numbers \(a _ { 1 } , a _ { 2 } , a _ { 3 } , \ldots\) is defined by
$$\begin{aligned} a _ { 1 } & = 3
a _ { n + 1 } & = \frac { a _ { n } - 3 } { a _ { n } - 2 } , \quad n \in \mathbb { N } \end{aligned}$$
  1. Find \(\sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { 100 } a _ { r }\)
  2. Hence find \(\sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { 100 } a _ { r } + \sum _ { r = 1 } ^ { 99 } a _ { r }\)