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Grade 11Algebra

(1) +(2+3) +(4+5+6) +........... Up to n terms
Find the sum

Profile image of Tarannum parveen
4 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Abhishek Singh
4 Years ago
Clearly here the nth term of series contains  n natural numbers.
Thus by nth terms total natural numbers will be n(n+1)/2. Now the sum of terms will be 
\begin{align*} S &= \frac{(\frac{n(n+1))}{2})(\frac{n(n+1)}{2}+1)}{2}\\ &= \frac{n(n+1)(n^2+n+3)}{8} \end{align*}