VSA2 marksYear: 2022MediumCBSE Class 10
arithmetic-progressionsnth-termdivisibility
Question
How many natural numbers are there between 1 and 1000 which are divisible by 5 but not by 2?
Solution
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Numbers divisible by 5 but not by 2:
5,15,25,35,…,995
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a=5, d=10, an=995⇒a+(n−1)d=995
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5+(n−1)10=995⇒(n−1)10=990
⇒n−1=99⇒n=100
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