Saturday, 12 October 2013

summation - Finding the n-th partial sum of an arithmetic progression




Find the nth partial sum given an=3n+2 and n=10.





I know that the formula to find the partial sum of an arithmetic series is Sn=n2(a1+an). However, I do not know how to find a1. Can someone please tell me how to find a1, or can this problem be solved another way?



So far, I have tried to substitute values and have gotten to Sn=5(a1+3n+2). But there are two unknowns and I don`t know where to go from there.


Answer



a1=31+2=5



a2=32+2=8



a3=33+2=11






a10=310+2=32



This is an arithmetic sequence with d=3 and a1=5 the formula is



Sn=a1n+dn(n1)2 this is equivalent with your formula: then a1=5, a10=32 and n=10 Sn=n(a1+an)2
S10=10(a1+a10)2


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