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yarga [219]
3 years ago
10

The arithmetic series 15+18+21+...+84+87 has how many terms?

Mathematics
2 answers:
bearhunter [10]3 years ago
8 0

We can use the general term of the arithmetic series. Look:


\mathsf{a_n=a_1+(n-1)\cdot r}


Where:


\mathsf{a_1}: first term, 15.

\mathsf{a_n}: last term, 87.

n: number of terms (what we looking for);

r: reason, which is equal to the difference between two terms, that is, 3.


Let's go to the calculations.


\mathsf{a_n=a_1+(n-1)\cdot r}\\\\ \mathsf{87=15+(n-1)\cdot3}\\\\ \mathsf{87-15=(3n-3)}\\\\ \mathsf{72=3n-3}\\\\ \mathsf{72+3=3n}\\\\ \mathsf{75=3n}\\\\ \mathsf{n=\dfrac{75}{3}=25}


There are 25 terms.

Advocard [28]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

The series has 25 terms.

Step-by-step explanation:

You could just diligently count, but it looks much better if you use the formula for the n-th term of an arithmetic series like this:

x_k = 15 + 3k\,\,,k=0,1,...

so the k=0 term is 15,  k=1 is 18, etc. Now we solve an equation as follows:

15+3k=87\implies k = (87-15)/3=24

so the last term (87) occurs for k=24, which means, including the 0-th term, there are 25 terms in this series.

The advantage of this method is that it would work for very very long series just as nicely, like 15+18+21+...+ 3015, 3018 (where the diligent method would just be way too boring)

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