Wednesday, 25 December 2013

sequences and series - Find number of terms in arithmetic progression




In a arithmetic progression sum of first four terms sum :
a1+a2+a3+a4=124



and sum of last four terms :
an+an1+an2+an3=156
and sum of arithmetic progression is :
Sn=350



n=?




How to find n? I tried using arithmetic progression sum formulas but getting negative or fractional numbers.


Answer



One has a1+a2+a3+a4+an3+an2+an1+an=280. The mean of those
eight terms is 35, so the mean of a1,,an is also 35. The sum
of those n terms is n times their mean, and is 350. So now you can read
off n.


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