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Revision as of 22:23, 5 March 2007
Problem
Find the value of if
,
,
is an arithmetic progression with common difference 1, and
.
Solution
One approach to this problem is to apply the formula for the sum of an arithmetic series in order to find the value of , then use that to calculate
and sum another arithmetic series to get our answer.
A somewhat quicker method is to do the following: for each , we have
. We can substitute this into our given equation to get
. The left-hand side of this equation is simply
, so our desired value is
.
See also
1984 AIME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by First Question |
Followed by Problem 2 | |
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 | ||
All AIME Problems and Solutions |