Given 1,4,4,9,9,9,16,16,16,16, ... Find the sum of first 99 terms.
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Given that n 2 will appear n times, the group of n is essentially n 3 . The sum to it, however, will be valid only for the case the amount of terms satisfy n = 2 m ( m + 1 ) where m is a non-zero natural number, hence: S 2 n ( n + 1 ) = ( 2 n ( n + 1 ) ) 2 Provided that 99 did not satisfy this condition, we then will try to evaluate the closest approximation to it. Provided for n = 1 3 gives S 2 1 3 ( 1 4 ) = ( 2 1 3 ( 1 4 ) ) 2 or S 9 1 = 8 2 8 1 . The next term will be 1 4 2 = 1 9 6 which will continue from a 9 2 to a 1 0 5 . We only need up to a 9 9 , so the sum for the rest is ( 9 9 − 9 2 + 1 ) × 1 4 2 = 1 5 6 8 . The sum for the first 99 terms of this series then be 8 2 8 1 + 1 5 6 8 = 9 8 4 9