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JEE Main · Maths · Statistics

GP Sum of Squares

JEE Main asked GP Sum of Squares 2 times in 2 of the 108 shifts Lumi analysed, in 2022 and 2023. It belongs to AP and GP, in Statistics (Maths). The longest wait between two years asking it was 1 year.

Updated 2026-10-24

Times asked
2
in 2 shifts
Years
2 of 8
First asked
2022
last in 2023
Pattern
Occasional
across the analysed shifts

Questions on this idea a shift, by year

2017–2026. Asked in 2022 and 2023. Years differ in how many shifts Lumi analysed, so each year is scaled to one shift of 25 Maths questions.

00.050.10’170’200’210.04’220.07’230’240’250’26

Raw count: 2017: 0 in 1 shift · 2020: 0 in 12 shifts · 2021: 0 in 24 shifts · 2022: 1 in 24 shifts · 2023: 1 in 12 shifts · 2024: 0 in 18 shifts · 2025: 0 in 8 shifts · 2026: 0 in 9 shifts.

Shift by shift

Each square is one analysed shift, in date order. Open a filled one for that paper.

  • 20260 of 9
  • 20250 of 8
  • 20240 of 18
  • 20231 of 12
  • 20221 of 24
  • 20210 of 24
  • 20200 of 12
  • 20170 of 1

Asked in that shift More than once Not asked

How JEE Main framed it

Numerical value is the usual form. Skill tested: calculation.

  • Mean of transformed geometric data
  • Find gp terms from sum of squares

Difficulty

Easy 0Medium 2Hard 0

1 of the 2 questions had a numerical answer.

Every question

All 2 questions

From the official JEE Main shift papers, newest first. Open one for the full question, the options and the official answer.

  1. 10 Apr 2023, Shift 1 · Q6Let the first term aa and the common ratio rr of a geometric progression be positive integers. If the sum of squares of its first three…MediumSingle correct
  2. 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1 · Q28Let x1,x2,x3,…,x20x_1,x_2,x_3,\ldots,x_{20} be in geometric progression with x1=3x_1=3 and the common ratio 12\frac{1}{2}. A new data is constructed…MediumNumerical value

Shifts: 28 Jul 2022, Shift 1, 10 Apr 2023, Shift 1.

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