Question

India is competitive manufacturing location due to the low cost of manpower and strong technical and engineering capabilities contributing to higher quality production runs. The production of TV sets in a factory increases uniformly by a fixed number every year. It produced 16000 sets in 6^th year and 22600 in 9^th year.

Based on the above information, answer the following questions:

1. Find the production during first year.

2. Find the production during 8^th year.

3. Find the production during first 3 years.

4. In which year, the production is Rs 29,200.

5. Find the difference of the production during 7^th year and 4^th year.

Answer 1

1. Rs 5000

2. Production during 8^th year is (a+7d)= 5000 + 2(2200) = 20400

3. Production during first 3 year = 5000 + 7200 + 9400 = 21600

4. N=12

5. Difference= 18200 -11600 = 6600