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Sarah.P

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Could anyone help me this question? Find the sum of the first n terms of a series given r^th term = 2^r +2r -1. Thank you so much
 

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sum_of_series = sigma 2^r + 2r -1

You can see part of the expression is compose of geometric and arithmetic series.
 

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so we just need to subtitute the n and then find the sum of the geo and the arithmetic separately
 

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