The number of common terms in the two sequences: 15, 19, 23, 27,.... , 415 and 14, 19, 24, 29,... , 464 is
Correct Answer :
20
Solution :
The first arithmetic progression (AP) is:
15, 19, 23, 27,..., 415
First term , common difference .
The second AP is:
14, 19, 24, 29,..., 464
First term , common difference .
The first common term of both sequences is .
The common terms themselves form an AP whose common difference is the LCM of the common differences of the two individual APs:
.
The common terms must be less than or equal to the minimum of the two series' end values, which is .
Let the number of common terms be . The -th common term is:
Since must be an integer, the maximum value of is 20.
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