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Krutarth Patel
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Ayush Verma
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Nov 22, 2014

this is telescoping,

Now use calculator,

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Sanjeet Raria
21, India

Nov 23, 2014

Another way of approaching this question could be to know that

Now the series can easily be telescoped to get the result.

@Pranjal Jain @Ayush Verma @sandeep Rathod
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Calvin Lin
30, USA

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Nov 24, 2014

In response to Sanjeet Raria: I like Ayush's method, as it easily generalizes and

shows us how to deal with
for some polynomial
. It doesn't
involve trying to spot a "magical" equation, but shows us how we can derive it.

https://brilliant.org/problems/myobservationsinmath1/

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involve trying to spot a "magical" equation, but shows us how we can derive it.

Find the floor Level 5 (220 points)

Next problem

If the general term of a series is

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Sanjeet Raria
21, India

Nov 24, 2014

In response to Calvin Lin: Ayush's method is brilliant no doubt in that but the
equation I've written down is not magical since everyone can reach it in a more
generalized and simple way. I am going to explain this in my upcoming note.
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and if
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Calvin Lin
30, USA

then find

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Nov 25, 2014

In response to Sanjeet Raria: I look forward to learning about that! It will help
such telescoping sums to be able to quickly figure out how to get
.
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This is one of my original problems.

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Sanjeet Raria
21, India

Nov 25, 2014

In response to Calvin Lin: Exactly sir.

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Pranjal Jain
17, India

Nov 22, 2014

How can someone think of telescoping here?? Awesome!!

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Calvin Lin
30, USA

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Nov 24, 2014

In response to Pranjal Jain: That is quite natural in the context of this question.
You may be familiar with the case of
. This is often
done with induction, but the better approach is to use telescoping series and
recognize it as
.
Hence, we want to do something similar. The easiest way to generalize it to to
look at
. This gives a way to
motivate the rest of the proof.
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Pranjal Jain
17, India

Nov 24, 2014

In response to Calvin Lin: Nicely explained! Thanks! You too @Ayush Verma
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Shashank Rustagi
20, India

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Actually It is 7.9018827
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Megh Choksi
18, India

Nov 29, 2014

Hats off . Upvoted

This image is copied from John Muradeli comment

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Sandeep Rathod
28, India

Nov 22, 2014

Sir how did you factorized it? @Ayush Verma

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Ayush Verma
19, India

Nov 22, 2014

In response to Sandeep Rathod: Method 1

Method 2

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Sandeep Rathod
28, India

Nov 23, 2014

In response to Ayush Verma: Really nice greatly done

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Sanjeet Raria
21, India

Nov 22, 2014

I appreciate your talent. Outstanding.

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