Activity 8 The Secret of Karl

A famous story tells that the following problem

was given by an elementary school teacher to a
famous mathematician to keep him busy and he
was able to get the sum within seconds only?
Lets try to beat him.
READY!

What is 1+2+3+4+…+100?
 Arithmetic Series
The sum of the terms in an Arithmetic
Sequence.
What is 1+2+3+4+…+100?
Activity 12 SUMthing to do
Find the sum.

1. Integers from 1 to 50
 Find the sum.

2. Odd integers from 1 to

100

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

3. Even Integers between 1

and 101.

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

4. First 25 terms of an
arithmetic sequence 4, 9,
14, 19,24,…

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

5. Multiples of 3 from 15 to
45

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

6. Numbers between 1 and

81 which ar divisible by 4.

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

7. First 20 terms of an
Arithmetic Sequence -16, -
20, -24,…

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

8. First 10 terms of an
Arithmetic sequence 10.2,
12.7, 15.2, 17.7,…

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

9. 1+5+9+…49+53

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
 Find the sum.

Activity 12 SUMthing to do
1. The sum of the first 10 terms of an arithmetic
sequence is 530. What is the first term if the last
term is 80.
2. The third term of an arithmetic sequence is -
12 and the seventh term is 8. What is the sum of
the first 10 terms?
3. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the
arithmetic sequence whose general term is

4. The ninth term of an arithmetic sequence is 42

and the sum of the first twelve terms is 414. Find
the first term of the sequence.
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Assessment