− 1 + 2 + 3 − 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 − 9 + 1 0 + 1 1 + 1 2 + 1 3 + 1 4 + 1 5 − 1 6 + 1 7 + … … . + 2 3 + 2 4 − 2 5 + 2 6 …
What is sum of first 100th term of this series?
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Let the sum be S . Then we have:
S = − 1 + 2 + 3 + . . . + 8 − 9 + 1 0 + . . . + 1 5 − 1 6 + 1 7 + . . . + 2 4 − 2 5 + 2 6 + . . . + 9 9 − 1 0 0 = ( 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + . . . + 1 0 0 ) − 2 ( 1 2 + 2 2 + 3 2 + . . . + 1 0 2 ) = n = 1 ∑ 1 0 0 n − 2 n = 1 ∑ 1 0 n 2 = 2 1 0 0 × 1 0 1 − 2 ( 6 1 0 × 1 1 × 2 1 ) = 5 0 5 0 − 2 ( 3 8 5 ) = 4 2 8 0
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We simply rewrote this series to f ( x ) = { x − x if x ∈ / N if x ∈ N For 1 ≤ x ≤ 1 0 0 , there will be 10 cases where x ∈ N . We can then wrote the series to
( 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ⋯ + 1 0 0 ) − 2 ( 1 + 4 + 9 + 1 6 + ⋯ + 1 0 0 )
Which is equal to 2 1 0 0 ( 1 0 1 ) − 2 ( 6 1 0 ( 1 1 ) ( 2 1 ) ) = 5 0 5 0 − 2 ( 3 8 5 ) = 4 2 8 0