Practice Problems

  1. Find the sum.

    \displaystyle\sum\limits_{k=1}^{40}{{(25 - 2k)}}=

  2. An arithmetic sequence is defined as follows:

    \begin{cases}a_1 = -138\\a_i = a_{i - 1} + 6\end{cases}

    Find the sum of the first ‍35 terms in the sequence.

  3. Find the sum.

    -111 + (-102) + (-93) + \dots + 159 + 168 =

  4. Find the sum.

    \displaystyle\sum\limits_{k=1}^{50}{{(131-4k)}}=


Source: Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/math/precalculus/x9e81a4f98389efdf:series/x9e81a4f98389efdf:arith-series/e/arithmetic_series
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License.