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This document provides examples of mathematical series and summations. It contains exercises involving writing series in summation notation, evaluating summations, and fully writing out summations. The exercises also ask the student to explain how some of the results could have been found more directly by simplifying the summations.

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Eda2s1ax Level2

This document provides examples of mathematical series and summations. It contains exercises involving writing series in summation notation, evaluating summations, and fully writing out summations. The exercises also ask the student to explain how some of the results could have been found more directly by simplifying the summations.

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Edexcel A level Maths Sequences and series

Section 1: Definitions and notation

Exercise level 2
n
1. Write each of the following series in the form a
1
k .

(i) 2 + 4 + 6 + …. + 20
(ii) 1 + 4 + 9 + … + 144
1 1 1
(iii) 1    ... 
2 3 20
(iv) 1 – 2 + 4 – 8 + … + 64

2. Find
5
(i)  (2k  1)
1
4
(ii) k 1
2

4
(iii) 2 0
k

3. Write out fully:


6
(i)  (2k
1
2
 1)
5 3
r
(ii) r2  
1 0 r 1
4 4
(iii)  (2k  1)   (2k  1)
0 0
5 5
(iv)  r   (2r  1)
1
2

4. Explain how your results in 3 (iii) and 3 (iv) could have been found more directly
by simplifying the summations.

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