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Revision as of 11:47, 20 December 2018
Problem
Solution
Taking the first product, we have
Looking at the second, we get
We seem to be going up by .
Just to check,
Now that we have discovered the pattern, we have to find the last term.
The sum of all numbers from to
is
See also
1998 AJHSME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by Problem 11 |
Followed by Problem 13 | |
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