2016 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 8
Contents
Problem
Find the value of the expression
Solutions
Solution 1
We can group each subtracting pair together:
After subtracting, we have:
There are
even numbers, therefore there are
even pairs. Therefore the sum is
Solution 2
Since our list does not end with one, we divide every number by 2 and we end up with
We can group each subtracting pair together:
There are now
pairs of numbers, and the value of each pair is
. This sum is
. However, we divided by
originally so we will multiply
to get the final answer of
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