JEE Advanced 2020Paper 1
- Exam
- JEE Advanced
- Year
- 2020
- Paper
- Paper 1
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Chapter
- Sequences and Series
JEE Advanced 2020 · Paper 1 · Mathematics · Sequences and Series
Let a _ 1 , a _ 2 , a _ 3 , . . . . . . . . . be a sequence of...
Let be a sequence of positive integers in arithmetic progression with common difference . Also, let be a sequence of positive integers in geometric progression with common ratio . If , then the number of all possible values of , for which the equality holds for some positive integer , is _______
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2\left({a}_{1} + {a}_{2} + . . . . . . . . + {a}_{n}\right) = {b}_{1} + {b}_{2} + . . . . . . . . + {b}_{n}⇒ 2\dfrac{n}{2}\left[2{a}_{1} + \left(n - 1\right) ⋅ 2\right] = \dfrac{{b}_{1} ⋅ \left({2}^{n} - 1\right)}{2 - 1}⇒ n\left[2c + 2n - 2\right] = c\left({2}^{n} - 1\right)⇒ 2n\left[c + n - 1\right] = c\left({2}^{n} - 1\right)⇒ c\left[{2}^{n} - 2n - 1\right] = 2{n}^{2} - 2n⇒ c = \dfrac{2{n}^{2} - 2n}{{2}^{n} - 2n - 1} \ge 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . \left(i\right)⇒ 2{n}^{2} - 2n \ge {2}^{n} - 2n - 1⇒ 2{n}^{2} + 1 \ge {2}^{n} ⇒ n \le 6n = 1, 2, . . . . . . , 6 and using , we get
, when
So, only one value of is possible.