SOLUTION: Prove by mathematical induction {{{1/(1*2) + 1/(2*3) + 1/(3*4)}}}+ ...+{{{1/n(n+1) = n/(n+1)}}}

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Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


We substitute n=1 



That's true.

Assume true for n=k

(1)  

We want to show that if (1) is true, then the following is true:

     

which simplifies to this:

(2)  

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So we start with what we assume to be true, which is (1):



and add the next term  to both sides:



Now if we can show that the right side



is equal to the right side of (2) then we will have proved the
proposition by induction:

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We get an LCD of (k+1)(k+2)

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That's the same as the right side of (2) above.  So we are done.

Edwin

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