Essentially this is asking you to sum the first three values of the geometric series that starts with i being 1 and has the rule of (
).
Since we must sum the first <em>three </em>geometric values we need to see what the value of i will be for the first three. The sigma notation shows us that the first i will be equal to 1. This means the second i is 2 and the third i is 3.
Knowing this you can plug in the corresponding i values into (
) and sum it all together
(
) + (
) + (
)
(
) + (
) + (
)
(
) + (
) + (
)
(8) + (2) + (
)
10 + 
10.5
Hope this helped!
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There are a lot of numbers you can think of, for example, 1030, or even 9939, but I don't recommend you put that ;)
A = (pi * r^2)/2
A = (3.1416 * (14.3/2)^2)/2
A = 80.3 ft^2