Pre-Calc
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Section 11.2: Series
Series:
The sum of a sequence of terms
In other words...
A list of numbers with addition operations between them
Summation Notation:
Sums can be represented by the summation
symbol (a capital greek letter Sigma).
upper bound
index
lower bound
Example: Solve.
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Pre-Calc
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Section 11.2: Series
Example: Write the following series using summation
notation: 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10
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Pre-Calc
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Section 11.2: Series
Arithmetic Series:
The sum of the components of an arithmetic
progression.
Example: Find the sum of the arithmetic series:
36 + 41 + 46 + 51 + ... + 91
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