SOLUTION: Write the series in summation notation. 1+5+9+13+17

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Question 190403: Write the series in summation notation.
1+5+9+13+17

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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Notice how we're adding 4 to each term to get the next term. So this means that the sequence is arithmetic. Since the series starts at 1, this means that the nth term of the sequence is where "n" starts at 0


So the series is simply




This means that


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Each term is so:




John


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