Saturday, 18 May 2013

algebra precalculus - Help in summing up this series involving binomial coefficients?

Find the sum of this series:



\sum_{r=1}^{19}\left( (-1)^{r-1}\frac{r}{{20\choose r}}\right)



NOTE: {20\choose r} = \frac{20!}{(20-r)!r!}



The final answer is 10/11.
I do have a way to solve this, but i find that to be wayy too tedious and long. Please don't use concepts that are above high school level.




Thanks in advance!

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