I really do not understand this unit can someone please help me.
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You're considering a sequence of in which consecutive terms differ by 1, meaning
<em>a(n)</em> = <em>a</em> (<em>n</em> - 1) + 1
so <em>a(n)</em> is an arithmetic sequence. (I'm guessing 20102010 should actually be 2010, and 53075307 should be 5307, so 11 should probably be just 1.)
The sum of the first 2010 terms is 5307, or
Find the value of the first term in the sequence, <em>a</em>(1).
We can write <em>a(n)</em> in terms of <em>a</em>(1) by iterative substitution:
<em>a(n)</em> = <em>a</em>(<em>n</em> - 1) + 1
<em>a(n)</em> = (<em>a</em>(<em>n</em> - 2) + 1) + 1 = <em>a</em>(<em>n</em> - 2) + 2
<em>a(n)</em> = (<em>a</em>(<em>n</em> - 3) + 1) + 2 = <em>a</em>(<em>n</em> - 3) + 3
and so on, down to
<em>a(n)</em> = <em>a</em>(1) + <em>n</em> - 1
So the sum of the first 2010 terms is
Recall that
and
So we have
Solve for <em>a</em>(1) :
2010 (<em>a</em>(1) - 1) + 2,021,055 = 5307
2010 (<em>a</em>(1) - 1) = -2,015,748
<em>a</em>(1) - 1 = - 335,958/335
<em>a</em>(1) = - 335,623/335
Now, every second term, starting with <em>a</em>(1), differs by 2, so they form another arithmetic sequence <em>b(n)</em> given by
<em>b(n)</em> = <em>b</em>(<em>n</em> - 1) + 2
or, using the same method as before,
<em>b(n)</em> = <em>b</em>(1) + 2 (<em>n</em> - 1) = <em>a</em>(1) + 2<em>n</em> - 2
The sum of the 1005 terms in this sequence is
= (- 335,623/335 - 2)•1005 + 2•1005•1006/2
= 1146