1995 AIME Problems/Problem 13
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[hide]Problem
Let be the integer closest to Find
Solution
When , then . Thus there are values of for which . Expanding using the binomial theorem,
Thus, appears in the summation times, and the sum for each is then . From to , we get (either adding or using the sum of consecutive squares formula).
But this only accounts for terms, so we still have terms with . This adds to our summation, giving .
Solution 2
This is a pretty easy problem just to bash. Since the max number we can get is , we just need to test n values for and . Then just do how many numbers there are times , which should be
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