Edexcel Paper 2 Specimen — Question 11

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModulePaper 2 (Paper 2)
SessionSpecimen
TopicArithmetic Sequences and Series

  1. The second, third and fourth terms of an arithmetic sequence are \(2 k , 5 k - 10\) and \(7 k - 14\) respectively, where \(k\) is a constant.
Show that the sum of the first \(n\) terms of the sequence is a square number.