some short and selected math problems of different levels in random order I try to keep the ans simple
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
2016/065) For which positive integer n does 2n devide the sum of 1^{st} n numbers, does 2n+1 devide the sum of 1^{st} n numbers
we have sum of 1^{st} n numbers =\frac{n(n+1)}{2}
for this to be divisible by 2n we should have 4n should deviden(n+1) or 4 should devide n+1 or n should be of the form 4k-1
as (2n+1) is co-prime to n and n+1 so for no n 2n+1 devides the sum
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