IPMAT Indore (MCQ) PYQs

The number of terms common to both the arithmetic progressions $2, 5, 8, 11, ..., 179$ and $3, 5, 7, 9, ..., 101$ is

A person standing at the centre of an open ground first walks 32 meters towards the east, takes a right turn and walks 16 meters, takes another right turn and walks 8 meters, and so on. How far will the person be from the original starting point after an infinite number of such walks in this pattern?

The numbers $-16,2^{x+3}-2^{2 x-1}-16,2^{2 x-1}+16$ are in an arithmetic progression. Then $x$ equals ________.