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AP EAMCET · Maths · Sequences and Series

The number of ways of selecting 3 numbers that are in G.P. from the set \(\{1,2,3, \ldots, 100\}\) is

  1. A 18
  2. B 52
  3. C 14
  4. D 53
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(D) 53

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Let three numbers in G.P. be \(a\), \(a r, a r^2\), such that \(a r^2 \leq 100 \Rightarrow a \leq \frac{100}{r^2}\) and \(a\) be a positive integer. So, \(a=\left[\frac{100}{r^2}\right], 2 \leq r \leq 10\)…