CAT (QA) PYQs

Consider a sequence of real number $x_1, x_2, x_3, ...$ such that $x_{n+1} = x_n + n - 1$ for all $n \ge 1$. If $x_1 = -1$ then $x_{100}$ is equal to

Consider the sequence $t_1 = 1$, $t_2 = -1$ and $t_n = \left(\frac{n-3}{n-1}\right) t_{n-2}$ for $n \ge 3$. The, the value of the sum $\frac{1}{t_2} + \frac{1}{t_4} + \frac{1}{t_6} + \dots + \frac{1}{t_{2022}} + \frac{1}{t_{2024}}$ is

The number of common terms in the two sequences: $15, 19, 23, 27,......., 415$ and $14, 19, 24, 29,........,464$ is