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Given 1,4,4,9,9,9,16,16,16,16, ... Find the sum of first 99 terms.


The answer is 9849.

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Kay Xspre
Sep 16, 2015

I wish to take reference to my question which is in a more general terms

Given that n 2 n^2 will appear n n times, the group of n n is essentially n 3 n^3 . The sum to it, however, will be valid only for the case the amount of terms satisfy n = m ( m + 1 ) 2 n = \frac{m(m+1)}{2} where m is a non-zero natural number, hence: S n ( n + 1 ) 2 = ( n ( n + 1 ) 2 ) 2 S_{\frac{n(n+1)}{2}}\ = (\frac{n(n+1)}{2})^2 Provided that 99 did not satisfy this condition, we then will try to evaluate the closest approximation to it. Provided for n = 13 n = 13 gives S 13 ( 14 ) 2 = ( 13 ( 14 ) 2 ) 2 S_{\frac{13(14)}{2}}\ = (\frac{13(14)}{2})^2 or S 91 = 8281 S_{91}=8281 . The next term will be 1 4 2 = 196 14^2 = 196 which will continue from a 92 a_{92} to a 105 a_{105} . We only need up to a 99 a_{99} , so the sum for the rest is ( 99 92 + 1 ) × 1 4 2 = 1568 (99-92+1)\times14^2 = 1568 . The sum for the first 99 terms of this series then be 8281 + 1568 = 9849 8281+1568 = 9849

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