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The sum of 1 3 + 3 3 2 + 5 3 3 + 7 3 4 + 1\cdot3+3\cdot3^2+5\cdot3^3+7\cdot3^4+\cdots upto 12 terms is?


The answer is 17537556.

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Feb 12, 2016

This is an arithmetic-geometric progression in the form:

r × k = 1 n ( a + ( k 1 ) d ) r k 1 r \times \sum_{k =1}^n (a + (k-1)d)r^{k-1} = a r [ a + ( n 1 ) d ] r n + 1 1 r + d r 2 ( 1 r n 1 ) ( 1 r ) 2 . \dfrac{ar -\left[ a+(n - 1)d\right] r^{n+1}}{1 - r}+\dfrac{dr^2(1 - r^{n-1 })}{(1 - r)^2}.

Setting a = 1 , d = 2 , r = 3 , n = 12 a = 1, d = 2, r =3, n =12 produces:

23 × 3 13 + 3 2 + 18 × ( 1 3 11 ) 4 = 17537556 \frac{-23 \times 3^{13} + 3}{-2}\ + \frac{18 \times (1-3^{11})}{4} = \boxed{17537556}

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