Thursday, January 23, 2014

Q2014/006) Find positive integers n such that the average of 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., n is a perfect square.

average of 1,2, … n is = (n+1)/ 2 = p^2 so n = 2 p^2 - 1, p = 1 => n = 1 p = 2 => n = 7

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