2018 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 2
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Problem
What is the value of the product
Solution
By adding up the numbers in each of the parentheses, we have:
.
Using telescoping, most of the terms cancel out diagonally. We are left with which is equivalent to
. Thus the answer would be
.
See also
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