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Thursday, March 26, 2015

2015/024) find the sum \sum_{n=6}^{+\infty}\dfrac{2}{n(n+2)}

this is telescopic sum
we have
\dfrac{2}{n(n+2)}= \dfrac{1}{n}- \dfrac{1}{n+2}

as n goes to inifinite the term  \dfrac{1}{n} converges to zero and when we add we are left with

\dfrac{1}{6}+\dfrac{1}{7}= \dfrac{13}{42}

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