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What is sum of the first 30 positive numbers?

 Sep 12, 2015
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What is sum of the first 30 positive numbers?

You can do it in a couple of ways:

(30 X (30+1)) / 2=465

Another way is to group them into pairs like this: 1 + 30, or 2 + 29, or 3 +28.....so on.

So we have 15 pairs X 31=465

 Sep 12, 2015

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