Practice Homework 6 -- Summation Notation

  1. Convert each of the following sums to summation notation:
    1. 2 + 4 + 6 + ... + 20

    2. 2 + 5 + 8 + ... + 23

    3. 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/10

  2. Use the summation formulas given on the webpage to solve each of the following:
    1. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... + 14

    2. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + ... + 128

    3. 1 + 4 + 9 + 16 + ... + 64

    4. 1 + 8 + 27 + 64 + ... + 512

    5. 1 + 3 + 9 + 27 + ... + 6,561

    6. 1 + 4 + 18 + 96 + ... + 35,280