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Calculus Level 4

lim n n 3 / 2 j = 1 6 n j = ? \large \displaystyle \left \lfloor \lim_{n \to \infty} { n^{{-3}/{2}} \sum_{j=1}^{6n} {\sqrt{j}}} \right \rfloor = \, ?

Notation : \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function .


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The answer is 9.

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1 solution

Chew-Seong Cheong
Sep 24, 2016

The problem can be solved using Riemann sums as follows.

S = lim n n 3 2 j = 1 6 n j = lim n 1 n j = 1 6 n j n = a b x 1 2 d x \begin{aligned} S & = \lim_{n \to \infty} n^{-\frac 32} \sum_{j=1}^{6n} \sqrt j = \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac 1n \sum_{j=1}^{6n} \sqrt{\frac jn} = \int_a^b x^\frac 12 dx \end{aligned}

Lower limit a = lim n 1 n = 0 a = \displaystyle \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac 1n = 0 and upper limit b = lim n 6 n n = 6 b = \displaystyle \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac {6n}n = 6 . Therefore, we have:

S = 0 6 x 1 2 d x = 2 3 x 3 2 0 6 9.798 \begin{aligned} S & = \int_0^6 x^\frac 12 dx = \frac 23 x^\frac 32 \bigg|_0^6 \approx 9.798 \end{aligned}

S = 9 \implies \lfloor S \rfloor = \boxed{9}

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