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So I have a formula,

100n(50×(1+100(n1)))=a(n) 

for finding the nth term of the sequence, but since It's neither arithmatic nor geometric, I don't know how to find a formula for the sum of the nth terms. Is there even a way to?

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 May 3, 2015

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I can't find an exact formula for the sum of N terms, but there is an approximate expression:

 

sum ≈ 2*N - 1.02  which gives it to two decimal places.

 

or sum ≈ 2*N - 1.020004 which gives it to 6 decimal places for N>3

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 May 4, 2015
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I can't find an exact formula for the sum of N terms, but there is an approximate expression:

 

sum ≈ 2*N - 1.02  which gives it to two decimal places.

 

or sum ≈ 2*N - 1.020004 which gives it to 6 decimal places for N>3

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Alan May 4, 2015

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