SOLUTION: Please help me solve: Find the sum of the series: {{{ 20sigma i=17 (2i+4)}}}

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Question 723522: Please help me solve: Find the sum of the series: +20sigma+i=17+%282i%2B4%29
Answer by KMST(5328) About Me  (Show Source):
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Do you mean sum%28%282i%2B4%29%2Ci=17%2C20%29 ?

After interpreting the meaning of the symbols, it is third grader math.
We can say fancy stuff, but if you just need the answer as a number, making it sound fancy is not worth the effort.

FANCY STUFF STARTER:
It is a sum of the first 4 terms of an arithmetic sequence with first term 38 and common difference 2.
There are formulas for calculating such a sum.
It can be broken us into multiple sums: