IB Mathematics Applications & Interpretation Topic SL 1.2—sequences and Sigma Notation (SL/HL) covers syllabus content. Use these notes, questionbank, videos, flashcards, and lessons to review the topic, practise exam questions, and move between notes, videos, flashcards, and lessons where available.
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What this topic covers
Question Type 1: Finding the nth term given the first term and the common difference
Question Type 2: Find the common difference given two terms
Question Type 3: Working with arithmetic sequences algebraically
Question Type 4: Find the sum of the first n terms given the first term and the common difference
Question Type 5: Find the sum of the first n terms, and find the common difference given the first term and last term
Question Type 6: Finding the sum of the first n terms given other sums