SOLUTION: how to find the sum of 50+51+52+...+83+84

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Question 987851: how to find the sum of 50+51+52+...+83+84
Answer by ikleyn(52905)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is an arithmetic progression with the first term   = 50,  the common difference  1  and the number of terms is  (84-49) = 35.

Apply the formula for the sum of first  n  terms of an arithmetic progression
(see, for example, the lesson  Arithmetic progressions  in this site).

S = = = 67*35 = 2345.


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