Wednesday, June 29, 2016

sequences and series - Find $frac{1}{7}+frac{1cdot3}{7cdot9}+frac{1cdot3cdot5}{7cdot9cdot11}+cdots$ upto 20 terms


Find $S=\frac{1}{7}+\frac{1\cdot3}{7\cdot9}+\frac{1\cdot3\cdot5}{7\cdot9\cdot11}+\cdots$ upto 20 terms


I first multiplied and divided $S$ with $1\cdot3\cdot5$ $$\frac{S}{15}=\frac{1}{1\cdot3\cdot5\cdot7}+\frac{1\cdot3}{1\cdot3\cdot5\cdot7\cdot9}+\frac{1\cdot3\cdot5}{1\cdot3\cdot5\cdot7\cdot9\cdot11}+\cdots$$ Using the expansion of $(2n)!$ $$1\cdot3\cdot5\cdots(2n-1)=\frac{(2n)!}{2^nn!}$$ $$S=15\left[\sum_{r=1}^{20}\frac{\frac{(2r)!}{2^rr!}}{\frac{(2(r+3))!}{2^{r+3}(r+3)!}}\right]$$ $$S=15\cdot8\cdot\left[\sum_{r=1}^{20}\frac{(2r)!}{r!}\cdot\frac{(r+3)!}{(2r+6)!}\right]$$ $$S=15\sum_{r=1}^{20}\frac{1}{(2r+5)(2r+3)(2r+1)}$$


How can I solve the above expression? Or is there an simpler/faster method?


Answer



Hint:


$\frac{1}{(2r+5)(2r+3)(2r+1)}=\frac{1}{4}\left(\frac{1}{(2r+3)(2r+1)}-\frac{1}{(2r+5)(2r+3)}\right)$



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