Consider a sequence of numbers 2, 5, 6, 7,11,13,12,17, 20,17, 23, 27,... Find the sum of the first 50 terms of this sequence.
Hint :- It is solvable by arithmetic progression.
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Haha, nice "colored" solution.
We can break up this sequence into three parts:- 2 , 7 , 1 2 , 7 , ⋯ 5 , 1 1 , 1 7 , 2 3 , ⋯ 6 , 1 3 , 2 0 , 2 7 , ⋯ .
Now, these individual parts form an arithmetic progression. Since 5 0 is not divisible by 3 , the first too sequences would have one more term than the last one. Now, the number of terms in the last sequence is ⌊ 3 5 0 ⌋ = ⌊ 1 6 . 6 6 6 . . . . . . ⌋ = 1 6 . So, the first two sequences would have 1 6 + 1 = 1 7 terms.
Sum of first 17 terms of first sequence = 2 1 7 × ( 2 × 2 + 1 6 × 5 ) = 2 1 7 × 8 4 = 1 7 × 4 2 = 7 1 4 .
Sum of first 17 terms of second sequence = 2 1 7 × ( 2 × 5 + 1 6 × 6 ) = 2 1 7 × 1 0 6 = 1 7 × 5 3 = 9 0 1 .
Sum of first 16 terms of third sequence = 2 1 6 × ( 2 × 6 + 1 5 × 7 ) = 2 1 6 × 1 1 7 = 8 × 1 1 7 = 9 3 6 .
So, the sum of the first 5 0 terms of the given AP is 7 1 4 + 9 0 1 + 9 3 6 = 2 5 5 1
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The sequence { 2 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 1 1 , 1 3 , 1 2 , 1 7 , 2 0 , 1 7 , 2 3 , 2 7 , . . . } is composed of three arithmetic progressions as follows: \[\begin{array} {} \color{blue}{2}, & & & \color{blue}{7}, & & & \color{blue}{12}, & & & \color{blue}{17}, & & & \color{blue}{\cdots} \\ & \color{red}{5}, & & & \color{red}{11}, & & & \color{red}{17}, & & & \color{red}{23}, & & & \color{red}{\cdots} \\ & & \color{green}{6}, & & & \color{green}{13}, & & & \color{green}{20}, & & & \color{green}{27}, & & & \color{green}{\cdots} \end{array} \]
The first terms, common differences and numbers of terms for the first 50 terms of the sequence of the three AP are:
⎩ ⎪ ⎨ ⎪ ⎧ a 1 = 2 , d 1 = 5 , n 1 = 1 7 a 2 = 5 , d 1 = 6 , n 2 = 1 7 a 3 = 6 , d 1 = 7 , n 3 = ⌊ 3 5 0 ⌋ = 1 6
The sum of the first 50 terms of the sequence is:
S 1 ( 1 7 ) + S 2 ( 1 7 ) + S 3 ( 1 6 ) = 1 7 ( 2 2 ( 2 ) + 5 ( 1 7 − 1 ) ) + 1 7 ( 2 2 ( 5 ) + 6 ( 1 7 − 1 ) ) + 1 6 ( 2 2 ( 5 ) + 7 ( 1 6 − 1 ) ) = 7 1 4 + 9 0 1 + 9 3 6 = 2 5 5 1