A person is to count 4500 currency notes. Let an denote the number of notes he counts in the nth minute. If a1=a2=...=a10=150anda10,a11,... are in an AP with common difference - 2, then the time taken by him to count all notes is
A
34 minutes
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B
125 minutes
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C
135 minutes
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D
24 minutes
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Solution
The correct option is A 34 minutes Till 10th minute number of counted notes = 1500 3000=n2[2×148+(n−1)(−2)]=n[148−n+1]n2−149n+3000=0⇒n=125,24 But n = 125 is not possible ∴ total time = 24 + 10 = 34 minutes.