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find the sum. 1-2+3-4+5-6+7-8...99-100

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genan

Answer:

-50

Step-by-step explanation:

1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 - 6 + 7 - 8...99 - 100

just means,

1 - 2 = -1

3 - 4 = -1

5 - 6 = - 1

7 - 8 = - 1

99 - 100 = -1

basically, -1 + -1 + -1 + -1 + ....+ -1 or -1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - ... - 1

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Treating Grandi's series as a divergent geometric series we may use the same algebraic methods that evaluate convergent geometric series to obtain a third value:

S = 1 − 1 − 1 + ..., so

1 − S = 1 − (1 − 1 − 1 ...) = 1 − 1 − 1 ... = S

1 - S = S

1 = 2*S

resulting in S = 1/2. The same conclusion results from calculating −S, subtracting the result from S, and solving 2S = 1

1/2 of the last term is 100 x 1/2 = 50

This because you are using 2 numbers per -1

example: 1 - 2 = -1 or 3 - 4 = -1 resulting in 50 of the -1 being subtracted

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