Thanks so much for all of that. Sorry half our class is 3 Unit so they try and make us learn it and integrate it into exams.
What about questions that say like:
Evaluate this arithmic series:
1+4+7+10....+991 - Ok I get that the a is one, the difference is 3 and the last number is 991, but what are they asking me to do? They havnt asked for a n value so what do I sub in for n?
It's asking you to sum up those values, using the formula
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Now, you have the first and last term, but you don't have how many terms in the series. You could just logic it out, or you could do it formally. Create the equation for each term in the series,
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and then sub in T=991. Solve for n, and you have your term number! Then, use that in the sum equation
